Full Description
The doctrine of the Incarnation was wellspring and catalyst for theories of images verbal, material, and spiritual. Section I, "Representing the Mystery of the Incarnation", takes up questions about the representability of the mystery. Section II, "Imago Dei and the Incarnate Word", investigates how Christ's status as the image of God was seen to license images material and spiritual. Section III, "Literary Figurations of the Incarnation", considers the verbal production of images contemplating the divine and human nature of Christ. Section IV, "Tranformative Analogies of Matter and Spirit", delves into ways that material properties and processes, in their effects on the beholder, were analogized to Christ's hypostasis. Section V, "Visualizing the Flesh of Christ", considers the relation between the Incarnation and the Passion.
Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel
PART ONE
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 Krüger
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
PART TWO
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
PART THREE
LITERARY FIGURATIONS OF THE INCARNATION
From Negative Painting to Loving Imprint in Pierre De Bérulle's Discours (1623)
Agnès 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 moralisé (1500)
Michael Randall
PART FOUR
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
Reindert Falkenburg
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
PART FIVE
VISUALIZING THE FLESH OF CHRIST
Dieu le Père en Vierge Marie. La Trinité - Pietà 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
Index
