Michael Camille
Biographic Data
| ID | 294969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Camille |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Camille |
| SIGNATURE | CAMILLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
For Our Devotion and Pleasure’
Jean, Duc de Berry (1340–1416), often seen as the first great ‘collector’ in Western art, is also described by some historians as a ‘homosexual’. This article examines the relationship between these two terms and the problematic historical evidence for the latter claim, exploring the duke’s desire for things, images and bodies in less categorical terms. The main argument is that we can best understand Jean’s sexual tastes from the artworks he com…
Master of Death
Michael Camille's history of death in miniature explores not just the life and death of a single medieval artist, nor a society's obsession with the macabre, but the relation between mortality and image-making itself. Camille argues that the medieval world perceived death as larger than life, that death was implicit at birth and stretched beyond the end of life to the resurrection of the body at the Last Judgement. Each of Camille's chapters, fra…
Nuns as Artists
Image on the Edge
Medieval Texts and Images
Writing Without Words
The Abject Gaze and the Homosexual Body
This article charts the history of the reception, reproduction and appropriation of a single image that has recently become a kind of "gay icon"--the Figure d'Etude in the Louvre, painted by Hippolyte Flandrin in 1835. Initially no more than a neo-classical academic exercise, the formal emptiness of this picture meant that it could be re-invested and reinscribed with new meanings and new titles at every turn. Emblematic of the anxious visibility/…
The Rothschild Canticles
Gothic Signs and the Surplus
York Minister
The 'Très Riches Heures
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. James A. Brundage
The Art of Matthew Paris in the "Chronica majora" . Suzanne Lewis
Labouring for the Lord
Seeing and Reading
Opening the Book
The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts 1420–1530 from American Collections by John Plummer and Gregory Clark , Oxford University Press, 1983, 122 pp., 200 ills, 12 colour pls, £60 Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Robert G. Calkins , London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, 340 pp., 158 ills, 27 colour pls, £35 The Hastings Hours, A 15th‐century Flemish Book of Hours made for William, Lord Hastings now the British Library and commentary b…
New Names for Old Things
Gentile da Fabriano by Keith Christiansen , London: Chatto & Windus, 1982, 193 pp., 166 ills, 4 colour pls, £35
Writing Without Words
Seeing and Reading
The 'Très Riches Heures
Gothic Signs and the Surplus
Labouring for the Lord
The Abject Gaze and the Homosexual Body
This article charts the history of the reception, reproduction and appropriation of a single image that has recently become a kind of "gay icon"--the Figure d'Etude in the Louvre, painted by Hippolyte Flandrin in 1835. Initially no more than a neo-classical academic exercise, the formal emptiness of this picture meant that it could be re-invested and reinscribed with new meanings and new titles at every turn. Emblematic of the anxious visibility/…
New Names for Old Things
Gentile da Fabriano by Keith Christiansen , London: Chatto & Windus, 1982, 193 pp., 166 ills, 4 colour pls, £35
Opening the Book
The Last Flowering: French Painting in Manuscripts 1420–1530 from American Collections by John Plummer and Gregory Clark , Oxford University Press, 1983, 122 pp., 200 ills, 12 colour pls, £60 Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages by Robert G. Calkins , London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, 340 pp., 158 ills, 27 colour pls, £35 The Hastings Hours, A 15th‐century Flemish Book of Hours made for William, Lord Hastings now the British Library and commentary b…
Seeing and Reading
Labouring for the Lord
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. James A. Brundage
The Art of Matthew Paris in the "Chronica majora" . Suzanne Lewis
York Minister
The 'Très Riches Heures
Gothic Signs and the Surplus
The Rothschild Canticles
Image on the Edge
Medieval Texts and Images
Writing Without Words
The Abject Gaze and the Homosexual Body
This article charts the history of the reception, reproduction and appropriation of a single image that has recently become a kind of "gay icon"--the Figure d'Etude in the Louvre, painted by Hippolyte Flandrin in 1835. Initially no more than a neo-classical academic exercise, the formal emptiness of this picture meant that it could be re-invested and reinscribed with new meanings and new titles at every turn. Emblematic of the anxious visibility/…
Master of Death
Michael Camille's history of death in miniature explores not just the life and death of a single medieval artist, nor a society's obsession with the macabre, but the relation between mortality and image-making itself. Camille argues that the medieval world perceived death as larger than life, that death was implicit at birth and stretched beyond the end of life to the resurrection of the body at the Last Judgement. Each of Camille's chapters, fra…
Nuns as Artists
For Our Devotion and Pleasure’
Jean, Duc de Berry (1340–1416), often seen as the first great ‘collector’ in Western art, is also described by some historians as a ‘homosexual’. This article examines the relationship between these two terms and the problematic historical evidence for the latter claim, exploring the duke’s desire for things, images and bodies in less categorical terms. The main argument is that we can best understand Jean’s sexual tastes from the artworks he com…
Art (14 works) · Art history (10 works) · History (8 works) · Classics (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Download (4 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (4 works) · History (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works)