De productie, functie en betekenis van Besloten Hofjes: een interdisciplinair onderzoek naar historische mixed media (1450-1600) KU Leuven
The Enclosed Gardens are unique reliquaries of the sixteenth century, imagining the praised garden of the Song of Songs. Their wooden cases contain relics, polychrome statues, seals in wax or pipe clay, tinted glass beads, pilgrim badges and various silk flowers and plants. This garden decorum, composed of individual devotionalia, allows to uplift the viewer into higher immaterial realms. Some of these shrines can be closed with ...