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Imago exegetica, visual images as exegetical instruments, 1400-1700, edited by Walter S. Melion , James Clifton and Michel Weemans

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Imago exegetica

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edited by Walter S. Melion , James Clifton and Michel Weemans

Intersections, 33

visual images as exegetical instruments, 1400-1700

This volume of 'Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture', consists of essays that pose fundamental questions about the relation between verbal and visual hermeneutics, especially as relates to biblical culture. Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, was neither solely textual nor aniconic; on the contrary, following from Scripture itself, which is replete with verbal images and rhetorical figures, exegesis has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. In turn, visual exegesis, since it concerns the most authoritative of texts, supplied a template for the interpretation of other kinds of significant text by means of images. Seen in this light, exegetical images prove crucial to understanding how meaning was constituted visually, not only in the sacred sphere but also in the secular --, Provided by Publisher

Introduction: Visual Exegesis WALTER S. MELION I. VISUAL TYPOLOGIES Jan van Eyck's Typology of Spiritual Knighthood in the Van der Paele Madonna JAMIE L. SMITH Typology at its Limits: Visual Exegesis and Eschatology in the Sistine Chapel GIOVANNI CARERI Typology-Back with a Vengeance! Texts, Images, and Marginal Glosses in Vorsterman's 1534 Dutch Bible WIM FRANÇOIS L'Épitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens. Rhétorique et Exégèse Visuelle COLETTE NATIVEL A New Interpretation of Vermeer's Allegory of Faith: Vividness and Figural Interpretation CAROLINE VAN ECK II. VISUAL ANALOGY AS AN EXEGETICAL INSTRUMENT Empathy as a Type of Early Netherlandish Visual Wit BRET L. ROTHSTEIN Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert's Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523 WALTER S. MELION The Preaching of John the Baptist: Herri met de Bles's Visual Exegesis and Expanded Typology MICHEL WEEMANS Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen TODD M. RICHARDSON Becoming Elijah: The Sleep of Elijah by Philippe de Champaigne from the Convent of the Val-de-Grâce TATIANA SENKEVITCH III. EXEGETICAL IMAGERY OF SPIRITUAL CONFORMATION 'See the Bridegroom Cometh; Go Out and Meet Him': On Spiritual Progress and Mystical Union in Early Netherlandish Painting INGRID FALQUE Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the 'Twice-Dyed' Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion ELLIOTT D. WISE Helenus and Dorotheos: Marten de Vos and the Desert Fathers LEOPOLDINE VAN HOGENDORP PROSPERETTI Lectio Divina and Francis de Sales's Picturing of the Interconnection of Divine and Human Hearts JOSEPH F. CHORPENNING IV. READING THE BIBLE THROUGH IMAGES Illumination of Images and Illumination through the Image-Functions and Concepts of Gospel Illustrations in the Bible of the Nuremberg Patrician Martin Pfinzing MARIA DEITERS Clades Judaeae Gentis: Patterns of Destruction MEREL GROENTJES Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century JAMES CLIFTON Framing Devices and Exegetical Strategies in Northern Illustrated Spiritual Literature RALPH DEKONINCK AND AGNÈS GUIDERDONI 'The Glory of the Last House' (Haggai 2: 9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai SHELLEY PERLOVE V. VISUAL INFLECTIONS OF TEXTUAL AUTHORITY Saints amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg's Pre-Reformatory Art: A New Exegesis of Dürer's Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand BIRGIT ULRIKE MÜNCH Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandisement WOLFGANG NEUBER Gideon, an Old Testament Hero in Action: Burgundian Symbolism and the Visual Language of Protestant Flanders DAGMAR EICHBERGER Maerten van Heemskerck's Heliodorus Driven from the Temple: Translatio and the Interrogative Print ARTHUR J. DIFURIA Of Churches, Heretics, and Other Guides of the Blind: The Fall of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Esthetics of Subversion JÜRGEN MÜLLER Bruegel's Biblical Kings LARRY SILVER VI. EMBLEMATIC IMAGES AND THE DISCERNMENT OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius' Paintings and Emblems NATHALIE DE BRÉZÉ Exegetical Immersion: The Festivities on the Occasion of Francis de Sales's Canonization (1665-1667) AGNÈS GUIDERDONI Old Emblems, New Meaning: A Critical Visual Account of the Reformation in De Hooghe's Hieroglyphica TRUDELIEN VAN 'T HOF VII. PREFIGURATION AND TRANSFIGURATION Vasari and The Transfiguration of Christ: Converging the Testaments and Competing with Predecessors ALEXANDER LINKE Rubens's Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death: Unveiling the Glory of God BARBARA HAEGER Index Nominum The Emergence of Impartiality Edited by Kathryn Murphy and Anita Traninger Tracing its emergence in various fields, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how the notion of impartiality is intimately implicated in epochal early modern shifts in epistemology and science, religious and political discourse, print culture, and scholarship. The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period Edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel Erasmus was one of the most widely read and controversial authors of the early modern period, inspiring a broad range of reader reactions. The present volume addresses various aspects of Erasmus's reception, including how the author's name was sometimes used to bolster. date: August 2013.. Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries Edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, health care, geographical discoveries, and even segments of life seemingly far removed from scholarship, such as warfare and engineering. Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture Edited by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert and Anita Traninger Discussing medieval and early modern 'disembodied heads' this collection questions the why and how of the primacy of the head in the bodily hierarchy during the premodern period. On the basis of beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, they come to an 'cultural...Series: INTE.Volume: 28..Format: Hardback.ISBN: 9789004253544.Publication date: July 2013.. The Artist as Reader Edited by Heiko Damm, Michael Thimann, and Claus Zittel Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists' education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves. Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe Edited by Wietse de Boer and Christine Göttler This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of sensation in the religious transformations of early modern Europe. Sensation was both central to the doctrinal disputes of the Reformation and critical in shaping new or reformed devotional practices. Blood, Sweat and Tears Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff, Helen King, and Claus Zittel Drawing on the methods of a wide range of academic disciplines, this volume shifts the focus of the history of the body, exploring the many different ways in which its physiology and its fluids were understood in pre-modern European thought. Translations of the Sublime Edited by Caroline van Eck, Stijn Bussels, Maarten Delbeke and Jürgen Pieters The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and The Turn of the Soul Edited by Lieke Stelling, Harald Hendrix and Todd Richardson Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe's most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in which spiritual transformations and exchanges of religious identities were given meaning. Foundation, Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe Edited by Maarten Delbeke & Minou Schraven Bringing together contributions from art history, architectural history, historiography and history of law, this volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the manifold meanings of foundation, dedication and consecration rituals and narratives in early modern culture