Imago and contemplatio in the visual arts and literature (1400-1700) : festschrift for Walter S. Melion

"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"-- Provided by publisher Contents Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Part 1 Devotion Chapter 1 Expecting Efficacy Chapter 2 Deus ex machina – Remarks on Early-Netherlandish Art of Devotion Chapter 3 Mediating the Holy: A Living Saint and the Status of the Image in Pre-Modern Augsburg Chapter 4 Panis Angelicus: The Christ Child among Angels in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Art Chapter 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 Chapter 6 The Stained Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of the Leuven Charterhouse: Between Memoria and Spiritual Edification? Chapter 7 Catechizing the Cross Chapter 8 Temple Priests and Pharisees on Calvary: Anti-Judaism and Humanism in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Crucifixion (c.1549) Chapter 9 Rubens and the Virgin Mary Chapter 10 ‘Vulnera Christi Medicina animarum’: The Pentalpha and the Five Wounds in Willem de Wael a Vronesteyn’s Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum (1649) Chapter 11 God’s Kiss to Humanity: Seeing the Incarnation through the Eyes of Francis de Sales Part 2 Art and Image Theory Chapter 12 Exemplum: Model Books, Memory, and Traces of Marian Devotion Circa 1400 Chapter 13 Silver and Gold I Do Not Have: Lambert Suavius’s Saint Peter Healing the Paralytic Man (1553) and the Poor Beauty of Engraving Chapter 14 All Cretans Lie: Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Misanthrope’ in a New Interpretation Chapter 15 Image and Honour: Nicholas Sander and the Council of Trent Chapter 16 Go from Fiction to the Truth!: Mennonitism and Humanism in Van Mander’s Theory of Painting Chapter 17 Homo in Imagine [Impressa] Ambulat, The Proof of the (Engraved) Image Chapter 18 The Problem of Ultraviolence in Modern Martyrology Narratives and Images, a Research Proposal Part 3 Vision and Contemplation Chapter 19 Quentin Massys’s Deceptions in Plain Sight Chapter 20 Animal Fables of Contemplation Chapter 21 Self-reflection in a Troubled Age: Gillis Anselmo’s album amicorum and an Astrolabe Made by Michiel Coignet Chapter 22 ‘As Did Bruegel’: David Vinckboons’ Agony in the Garden as Proleptic Sacred Landscape Chapter 23 Notes on Galileo’s Moon Chapter 24 Hermeneutics and Allegory in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin’s Les Délices de l’esprit (1658): from Visual to Figural Exegesis Bibliography Walter Melion Index Nominum