Brill Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art: 296/37 (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 296/37)

Product Description In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson demonstrates how garden imagery defined bodily desire as a fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake. Review "The rich variety of images (canonical and obscure), as well as the impressive bibliography she [Andrea Pearson] has assembled, provide excellent resources for students and scholars alike." - John R. Decker, Pratt Institute, in: Historians of Netherlandish Art, August 2019 About the Author Andrea Pearson, Ph.D., has published extensively on women, gender, and sexuality in the early modern Low Countries. She is an associate professor of art history at American University in Washington, D.C.