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Learned Reading, Vernacular Seeing: Jacques Daret's Presentation in the Temple.

From: The Art Bulletin  |  Date: 9/1/2000  |  Author: Jolly, Penny Howell

Soon after becoming abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St-Vaast in Arras in 1428, Jean du Clercq commissioned for the chapel dedicated to Mary, behind the main altar in the choir of his abbey church of Notre-Dame, what is today the best documented of Flemish altarpieces. In 1431 he hired a metalworker to produce copper columns to support curtains; the following year he purchased alabaster statuettes and commissioned fifteen brass chandeliers for the chapel; in 1433 he hired a sculptor ...

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