Research Catalog

Title

Image and Incarnation : the early modern doctrine of the pictorial image / edited by Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Melion, Walter S.
• Wandel, Lee Palmer

Description

xxv, 514 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color); 25 cm.

Series Statement

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 39 - 2015

Uniform Title

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) v. 39.

Subject

• Incarnation
• Incarnation in art
• Incarnation in literature
• Image of God
• Image of God
• Incarnation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Representing the mystery of the Incarnation -- Medietas / Mediator and the Geometry of Incarnation / Herbert L. Kessler -- Mute mysteries of the divine logos : on the pictorial poetics of Incarnation / Klaus Kruger -- A meaty Incarnation: making sense of divine flesh for Aztec Christians / Jaime Lara -- The ineffability of Incarnation in Le Brun's Silence or Sleep of the Child / Matthieu Somon -- Imago Dei and the incarnate word Thomas Aquinas, sacramental scenes, and the 'aesthetics' of Incarnation /Mark D. Jordan -- The poetics of the image in late medieval mysticism / Niklaus Largier -- Incarnation, image, and sign : John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion & late medieval visual culture / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Eye to eye, text to image? Jan Provoost's sacred allegory, Jan Van Ruusbroec's Spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit, and mystical contemplation in the Late Medieval Low countries / Geert Warnar-- A just proportion of body and soul : emblems and incarnational grafting / Christopher Wild -- Literary figurations of the Incarnation -- From negative painting to loving imprint in Pierre De Berulle's discours (1623) / Agnes Guiderdoni -- Discerning vision : cognitive strategies in Cornelis Everaert's Mary compared to the Light (c. 1511) / Bart Ramakers -- The fountain of life in Molinet's Roman de la Rose Moralise (1500) -- Transformative analogies of matter and spirit -- Figuring the threshold of Incarnation : Caravaggio's incarnate image of the Madonna of Loreto / Ralph Dekoninck -- Super-entanglement : unfolding evidence in Hieronymus Bosch's Mass of St. Gregory -- The mystery of the Incarnation and the art of painting / Dalia Judovitz -- Convent and Cubiculum Cordis: the incarnational thematic of materiality in the Cistercian prayerbook of Martin Boschman (1610) / Walter S. Melion -- Visualizing the flesh of Christ-- Dieu le Pere en Vierge Marie. La Trinite-Pieta de Rubens Colette Nativel -- Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban story of Virgin -- Martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria / Haruko Nawata Ward.

ISBN

• 9789004300507
• 9004300503
• 9789004300514 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015023009

OCLC

• 914256991
• SCSB-12057371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library