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Title

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

Author

Lovis Corinth Colloquium (4th : 2012 : Emory University), author.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Supplementary Content

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Additional Authors

• Melion, Walter S.
• Clifton, James, 1958-
• Weemans, Michel

Description

lv, 1,008 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Intersections ; 33

Uniform Title

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; 33.

Subject

• Bible > Hermeneutics > Congresses
• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses
• Bible > Illustrations > Congresses
• Christian art and symbolism > Europe > Medieval, 500-1500 > Congresses
• Christian art and symbolism > Europe > Modern period, 1500- > Congresses
• Visual communication > Europe > History > Congresses
• Theology > Europe > History > Congresses
• Hermeneutics > History > Congresses
• Europe > Religious life and customs > Congresses
• Europe > Intellectual life > Congresses

Note

• "Emory University, Lovis Corinth Colloquium IV."

Bibliography (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 Detters -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-7681

ISBN

• 9789004262003
• 9004262008
• 9789004262010 (canceled/invalid)
• 9004262016 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013040477

OCLC

857806999

Conference

Lovis Corinth Colloquium (4th : 2012 : Emory University), author.

Title

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

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Intersections ; 33

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; 33.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

BrillOnline

Added Author

Melion, Walter S., editor.

Clifton, James, 1958- editor.

Weemans, Michel, editor.

Other Form:

(GyWOH)har145006653

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7681