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Oschema, Klaus, "Liquid splendour – table-fountains and wine-fountains at the Burgundian Courts", dins: Blockmans, Wim - Borchert, Till-Holger - Gabriëls, Nele - Oosterman, Johan - Oosterwijk, Anne van (eds.), Staging the Court of Burgundy. Proceedings of the Conference "The Splendor of Burgundy", [Turnhout], Harvey Miller Publisher (Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 69), 2013, pp. 133-140; 359-361.

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A short peace on the presence and use of table- and wine-fountains in the setting of 14th and 15th c. Burgundian courts. In this text I argue that esp. wine-fountains could serve to symbolically convey the idea of the ruler's ideal generosity by way of indiscriminately giving to his "subjects", using the neoplatonic imagery of an overflowing fountain. While the spatial and iconographic arrangements could served to identify him as the source of this "magnificence", the practical structure could also be used to create a boundary between the more restricted space of "the court" and the wider space of "the public".

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