New Publication: ‘Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Sculpture: Works, Artists, Questions’, ed. Michele Tomasi, Thomas Flum, Jean-Marie Guillouët, and Sophie Jugie

Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Sculpture: Works, Artists, Questions, ed. Michele Tomasi, Thomas Flum, Jean-Marie Guillouët, Sophie Jugie, Rome, Viella, 2026; 1 vol., 360 pp. (Études lausannoises d’histoire de l’art, 35). ISBN: 979-1-25469-754-2. €48.00

Fifteenth-century Burgundian sculpture occupies a central place in the canon of art history and has been at the heart of research interest since the late 19th century.

From the 1990s onwards, its study has been profoundly renewed. In keeping with this movement, this work offers new insights into this rich universe, dealing with sculptors and lesser-known works alongside the most famous, highlighting recent restorations, relying on sources as well as technical and material analyses, and giving ample space to the influence of Burgundian models and their reception as far as Aragon and Hungary or in American museums.

Thus, through fifteen different dossiers addressing the functions and iconographies of sculptures, the paths and working methods of image-makers, the circulation of artists and models, it offers a state of our knowledge on one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of medieval European art.

Table of contents:

Jean-Marie Guillouët, Thomas Flum, Sophie Jugie, Michele Tomasi, Introduction I. At the heart of the Duchy of Burgundy

Renate Prochno-Schinkel, The Migration of Mary Magdalene from Italy into Burgundy and France and its Afterlife

Matthieu Pinette, Sculpture at the heart of the emblematic program of the Château de Germolles

Hervé Mouillebouche, The gargoyles of Philip the Good’s new house in Dijon

II. Rereading the works

Justin Kroesen, Horizontal, with Sculptures on top. The Altarpiece in the Machefoing Chapel at Rouvres-en-Plaine and its French Context

Lola Fondbertasse, Alexandra Gérard, Morgane Poirier, The Study and Restoration of a Virgin and Child with a Scroll: Reflections on an Important Corpus in 15th-Century Burgundy

Véronique Boucherat, Iconological study at its foundation: some 15th-century Burgundian and Franche-Comté sculptures and their terraces

III. Sculptors’ Journeys: Works and Sources

Jean-Marie Guillouët, Proposals on the artistic landscape of Claus Sluter’s formative years at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries

Michele Tomasi, Works, documents and the history of Burgundian sculpture: around the case of Jean Prindale

Michel Lefftz, Burgundian Heritage and Personal Journey in the Sculpted Work of Jacques Morel (1395-1459)

Fabien Dufoulon, Sculpture in the diocese of Chalon-sur-Saône around 1500: an investigation into a “masson and image-maker”

IV. The Reception of Burgundian Sculpture: Spaces and Times

Daniele Rivoletti, Between Geography and the History of Art History: Facing Burgundy, Sculpture in the Bourbonnais

Jean-Luc Liez, The Reception of Burgundian Sculpture in 15th Century Champagne

Joan Domenge Mesquida, Reflections of Burgundian sculpture in the Crown of Aragon: some remarks on the activity of Guillem Sagrera in Majorca

Szilárd Papp, French and Burgundian Methods of Production on Sculptures of the Buda Palace of the Hungarian King Sigismund of Luxembourg (1387-1437)

Cécile Gourhand, The place of Burgundian sculpture in the reception of the Middle Ages in the United States

Find out more about the new book here.