Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700)

Stijn Bussels is Professor of Art History, especially before 1800, and head of the Department of Art History at Leiden University. Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Elliott D. Wise is Associate Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University. Michel Weemans is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne.

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


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