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

By: (4th : Lovis Corinth Colloquium (4th : 2012 : Emory University)
Contributor(s): Melion, Walter S [editor.] | Clifton, James, 1958- [editor.] | Weemans, Michel [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Intersections (Boston, Mass.): v. 33.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014Description: lv, 1,008 pages, 22 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004262003 (hardback : acidfree paper); 9004262008 (hardback : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Hermeneutics | Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible -- Illustrations | Christian art and symbolism -- Europe -- Medieval, 500-1500 | Christian art and symbolism -- Europe -- Modern period, 1500- | Visual communication -- Europe -- History | Theology -- Europe -- History | Hermeneutics -- History | Europe -- Religious life and customs | Europe -- Intellectual lifeDDC classification: 302.2/22 LOC classification: BS476 | .L68 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Visual exegesis and Pieter Bruegel's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery / Walter S. Melion -- Jan van Eyck's typology of spiritual knighthood in the Van de 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 -- Empathy as a type of early Netherlandish visual wit / Bret L. Rothstein -- Medieval 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 --
'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 Dorotheus: 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 -- 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 --
Saints amidst the inferno: humanism in Wittenberg's pre-Reformation 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-aggrandizement / 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 -- 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 canonisation (1665-1667) / Agnès Guiderdoni -- Old emblems, new meaning: a critical visual account of the Reformation in De Hooghe's Hieroglyphica / Trudelien van 't Hoff -- 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.

"Emory University, Lovis Corinth Colloquium IV."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual exegesis and Pieter Bruegel's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery / Walter S. Melion -- Jan van Eyck's typology of spiritual knighthood in the Van de 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 -- Empathy as a type of early Netherlandish visual wit / Bret L. Rothstein -- Medieval 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 --

'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 Dorotheus: 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 -- 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 --

Saints amidst the inferno: humanism in Wittenberg's pre-Reformation 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-aggrandizement / 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 -- 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 canonisation (1665-1667) / Agnès Guiderdoni -- Old emblems, new meaning: a critical visual account of the Reformation in De Hooghe's Hieroglyphica / Trudelien van 't Hoff -- 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.

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