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Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians - including Male, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro - have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened.This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.
Contents
ContentsPrefaceNotes on ContributorsList of figuresMedieval Iconography, An introductionColum HourihaneSection I THE GREAT ICONOGRAPHERS1. Andrea AlciatoDenis L. Drysdall and Peter M. Daly2. Ripa, the trincianteCornelia Logermann3. Adolphe-Napoleon DidronEmilie Maraszak4. Louis ReauDaniel Russo5. Emile MaleKirk Ambrose6. Aby M. Warburg: Iconographer?Peter van Huisstede7. Fritz Saxl. Transformation and Reconfiguration of Pagan Gods in Medieval ArtKatia Mazzucco8. Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)Dieter Wuttke9. Charles Rufus Morey and the Index of Christian ArtColum Hourihane10. Hans van de Waal, A Portrait Edward Grassman11. Meyer Schapiro as IconographerPatricia Stirnemann12. Michael Camille's Queer Middle AgesMatthew M. ReeveSection 2 SYSTEMS AND CATALOGUING TOOLS13. The Anthropology of ImagesRalph Dekoninck14. Classifying Image Content in Visual Collections; A Selective HistoryChiara Franceschini15. Library of Congress Subject HeadingsSherman Clarke16. iconclass: a key to collaboration in the Digital HumanitiesHans 17. Religious Iconography Marina Vicelja18. Liturgical IconographyKarl Morrison19. Secular Iconography Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck20. Erotic IconographyMadeline H. Caviness21. The Iconography of NarrativeAnne F. Harris22. Political Iconography and The Emblematic Way of SeeingGyorgy E. Szonyi23. Picturing the stars - Scientific iconography in the Middle AgesDieter Blume24. Medicine's Image Jack Hartnell25. Patronage: A Useful Category of Art Historical AnalysisElizabeth Carson Pastan26. Royal and Imperial IconographyJoan A. Holladay27. The Iconography of ArchitectureElizabeth Valdez del Alamo28. Heraldic Imagery, Definition and PrinciplesLaurent Hablot29. Medieval Maps and DiagramsDiarmuid Scully30. The Iconography of Gender Sherry C.M. Lindquist31. Feminist Art History and Medieval IconographyMartha Easton32. The Iconography of ColorAndreas Petzold33. Flowers and Plants, the Living Iconography Celia Fisher34. The Iconography of LightSharon E. J. Gerstel and Michael W. Cothren 35. The Visual Representation of Music and Sound Susan Boynton36. The Other in the Middle Ages, Difference, Identity, and Iconography Pamela A. Patton37. Animal IconographyDebra Higgs Strickland38. Monstrous IconographyAsa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim
