Full Description
This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: "Devotion," "Art and Image Theory," and "Vision and Contemplation." The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists' reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the 'early modern eye' as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction
Stijn P.M. Bussels, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Michel Weemans, and Elliott D. Wise
Part 1: Devotion
1 Expecting Efficacy
John Decker
2 Deus ex machina - Remarks on Early-Netherlandish Art of Devotion
Reindert L. Falkenburg
3 Mediating the Holy: A Living Saint and the Status of the Image in Pre-Modern Augsburg
Ashley D. West
4 Panis Angelicus: The Christ Child among Angels in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Art
Larry Silver
5 Private Devotion within the Imperial Network
Nicolas de Granvelle and Nicole Bonvalot as Followers of the Cult of The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin
Dagmar Eichberger
6 The Stained Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of the Leuven Charterhouse: Between Memoria and Spiritual Edification?
Ingrid Falque
7 Catechizing the Cross
Lee Palmer Wandel
8 Temple Priests and Pharisees on Calvary: Anti-Judaism and Humanism in Maarten van Heemskerck's Crucifixion (c.1549)
Shelley Perlove
9 Rubens and the Virgin Mary
Colette Nativel
10 'Vulnera Christi Medicina animarum': The Pentalpha and the Five Wounds in Willem de Wael a Vronesteyn's Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum (1649)
James Clifton
11 God's Kiss to Humanity: Seeing the Incarnation through the Eyes of Francis de Sales
Joseph F. Chorpenning
Part 2: Art and Image Theory
12 Exemplum: Model Books, Memory, and Traces of Marian Devotion Circa 1400
C. Jean Campbell
13 Silver and Gold I Do Not Have: Lambert Suavius's Saint Peter Healing the Paralytic Man (1553) and the Poor Beauty of Engraving
Edward H. Wouk
14 All Cretans Lie: Pieter Bruegel's 'Misanthrope' in a New Interpretation
Jürgen Müller
15 Image and Honour: Nicholas Sander and the Council of Trent
Wietse de Boer
16 Go from Fiction to the Truth!: Mennonitism and Humanism in Van Mander's Theory of Painting
Boudewijn Bakker
17 Homo in Imagine [Impressa] Ambulat, the Proof of the (Engraved) Image
Ralph Dekoninck
18 The Problem of Ultraviolence in Modern Martyrology Narratives and Images, a Research Proposal
Pierre-Antoine Fabre
Part 3: Vision and Contemplation
19 Quinten Massys's Deceptions in Plain Sight
Bret L. Rothstein
20 Animal Fables of Contemplation
Paul J. Smith
21 Self-reflection in a Troubled Age: Gillis Anselmo's album amicorum and an Astrolabe Made by Michiel Coignet
Christine Göttler
22 'As Did Bruegel': David Vinckboons' Agony in the Garden as Proleptic Sacred Landscape
Art DiFuria
23 Notes on Galileo's Moon
Barbara Baert
24 Hermeneutics and Allegory in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin's Les Délices de l'esprit (1658): from Visual to Figural Exegesis
Agnès Guiderdoni
Bibliography Walter Melion
Index Nominum
