“The heterotopia,” Michel Foucault writes, is “capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several places, several sites that are in themselves incompatible.” This paper argues for a heterotopic understanding of the Oriental carpet in its depicted form within Hans Memling’s paintings of Christ and Mary. Memling’s painted carpets are imagined territorially and to introduce a different kind of space into images otherwise tentatively whole. Such an understanding not only pushes against a narrative in which Eastern objects in Northern interiors primarily suggest a flourishing economy but also demonstrates the painted carpet’s participation in the tradition of virtual pilgrimage and the Holy Land relic. Though far from sacred in its domestic use in Northern Europe, the carpet achieves a latent symbolic function when represented in Memling’s painting. It is transformed into a generalized relic of walking and marks a moment of encounter between a holy body and an object made thereby holy too.

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脚踩到的地方：汉斯·梅姆林的《圣约翰祭坛》中“东方”地毯的空间

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault）写道：“异位症能够在一个真实的地方并置多个地方，这些地方本身是不兼容的。” 本文主张在汉斯·梅姆林（Hans Memling）的基督和玛丽绘画中以其描绘的形式对东方地毯进行异质理解。梅姆林的彩绘地毯是按地域想象的，并在图像中引入了一种不同的空间，否则试图将其整体化。这种理解不仅推动了一种叙事，在叙事中，北方内饰中的东方物体主要表明了蓬勃发展的经济，而且还证明了彩绘地毯对虚拟朝圣和圣地遗迹的参与。尽管在北欧的家庭使用中远非神圣，但在梅姆林的绘画中表现出来的地毯却具有潜在的象征性功能。