Background
Wilson, Jean Carol was born on August 4, 1950 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of A. Noel and Emma Wilson.
(This book is the first to explore the origins and nature ...)
This book is the first to explore the origins and nature of the demand for painting in Bruges over the course of the fifteenth century and its subse-quent effect on the community of painters and their workshop and marketing practices. The evolution of Bruges was fundamentally linked with commerce, and as a result of the city's thriving international trade and rising merchant class, it was to become one of the most affluent and cosmopolitan centers in late medieval Europe. However, only after the Duke of Burgundy moved his court to Bruges in the early decades of the fifteenth century would it begin to be a major center for the production of panel painting. This study examines the coming together of the opulent Burgundian court, an affluent urban bourgeoisie, and an increasingly expanding community of painters, and the effects of this dynamic social configuration on the newly emerging art of oil painting. Specifically, Wilson argues that while the nobility were not particularly active as patrons of paintings, members of the urban patriciate who hoped to enter into the circle of the court were nevertheless influenced by the nobility's culture of display and found that paintings effectively served their needs for representations of their aspirations for social advancement. She further suggests that, in commissioning altarpieces for ecclesiastical interiors, patrons were also concerned to include their portraits and coats of arms in an effort to promote the status and prestige associated with their families. The demand for paintings was therefore to escalate throughout the fifteenth century, resulting in painters' increasing involvement in the reproduction of popular compositions and the eventual emergence of a mass market for their art.
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Wilson, Jean Carol was born on August 4, 1950 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of A. Noel and Emma Wilson.
Bachelor, American University, 1972. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1975. Master of Education, Johns Hopkins University, 1978.
Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1984.
Research assistant, Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, Washington, 1982-1984; A.W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in humanities, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1984-1986; assistant professor art history, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1986-1994; associate professor art history, State University of New York, Binghamton, since 1995.
(This book is the first to explore the origins and nature ...)
Member American Association of University Women, American History Association, American Association Netherlandic Studies, College Art Association, Historians of Netherlandish Art, Medieval Academy American, Renaissance Society of America.