Book Series Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture, vol. 1

Borman in Context

Marjan Debaene, Hannah De Moor (eds)

  • Pages: iv + 326 p.
  • Size:180 x 265 mm
  • Illustrations:12 b/w, 181 col.
  • Language(s):English, French
  • Publication Year:2025


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Following the first ever monographical exhibition at M-Museum Leuven in 2019, this volume contextualizes the sculptural work of the Borman family.

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BIO

Marjan Debaene is Chief Curator of Old Masters at M Leuven and an expert on late Gothic Brabant sculpture and painting. She published M’s first sculpture catalogue in 2014 and has curated numerous exhibitions and collection presentations for the museum, including Sculptures from Bruges (2015), Plein Air (2015), Crossing Borders: Medieval Sculpture from the Low Countries (2017), Borman and Sons (2019), and Alabaster (2022). She also serves as coordinator of Ards

The Platform for Medieval Sculpture. Marjan studied Art History and Cultural Studies at KU Leuven. Her doctoral research, titled What’s in a Name? Leuven Sculpture Re-examined, focuses on sculpture produced in Leuven around 1500.

Hannah De Moor is Collaborator for the Medieval Sculpture Collection at M Leuven and at Ards

The Platform for Medieval Sculpture. She received her PhD in Art History from KU Leuven in 2022, under the supervision of Prof. Jan Van der Stock and Prof. Carina Jacobsson. Her research, funded by the Chair for Medieval Sculpture in the Netherlands and Illuminare – Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Art (KU Leuven), focused on Netherlandish carved altarpieces in medieval Sweden.

She is co-editor of the volume Taking Shape: Sculpture of the Low Countries, c. 1400–1600, published by Brepols in 2024.

Summary

In September 2019, ten years of interdisciplinary research culminated in the first-ever monographic exhibition on the Borman family, titled Borman and Sons. The Best Sculptors (20.09.19–26.01.20) at M Leuven. The exhibition was accompanied by a new publication on the Borman family of Brussels sculptors, who were active from the second half of the fifteenth century into the second third of the sixteenth century. The 6th Annual Ards Colloquium, held at M Leuven in November 2019, provided an in-depth contextualisation of the sculptural work of the Borman family. While a document from 1513 refers to the Bormans as ‘the best sculptors’, they did not operate in isolation. Brussels was a thriving artistic centre - a cultural hub that hosted numerous talented and influential artists, all working under the patronage of high-profile commissioners. This volume presents papers that explore the Bormans’ role within the artistic context of the Duchy of Brabant, alongside discussions of stylistic and iconographical themes, as well as new discoveries concerning their commissions and works.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Commissions and Commissioners from North to South

Magali Briat-Philippe, The Statuary of the Royal Monastery of Brou, an Important and Singular Witness of Brabantine Sculpture between 1513 and 1522

Catheline Périer-D’Ieteren, Emmanuelle Mercier, and Myriam Serck-Dewaide, The Adoration of the Magi in San Nazaro, Milan: An Unknown Work by Jan Borman II?

Marjan Debaene and Claire Dumortier, The Bormans and Leuven: An Analysis of Known and Newly Discovered Documents in the Leuven City Archives concerning Jan I Borman, the Borman Family, and Their Artistic Activity in Leuven in the Fifteenth Century

Hannah De Moor,  In Search of the Patrons of Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces in Sweden

Ragnhild M. Bø, The Resurrected Christ Appearing to His Mother and the Seven Joys of the Virgin: Borman and Beyond

Adam Harris Levine, Borman Reliquaries in their Iberian Context

Emilio Ruiz de Arcaute Martinez, Originals or Copies? Interesting Contributions regarding the Technical Study of Some Borman Reliquary Busts

Part II: Style, Materials, Techniques, and Workshop Organisation

Michel Lefftz, De Rogier van der Weyden à Jan Borman I: Transferts, rivalité et émulation dans la peinture et la sculpture des anciens Pays-Bas au XVe siècle

Elisabeth Van Eyck and Ria De Boodt, Reunited? Case Study about an Early Sixteenth-Century Carved Wooden Altarpiece and Its Painted Shutters

Ingrid Geelen, The Polychromers of the Borman Altarpieces

Christel Theunissen, Lost and Found: Tracing the Origin of Scattered Choir Stall Fragments

Seppe Roels and Marieke Van Vlierden, Mallets, Flowers, and Circles: Marks on Sculptures Related to the Borman Workshops: A Preliminary Comparison

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