Ut Pictura Amor : The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700

Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term 'reflexive' is here used to refer to images that invite reflection not only on their form, function, and meaning, but also on their genesis and mode of production. Early modern artists often fashioned reflexive images and effigies of this kind, that appraise love by exploring the lineaments of the pictorial or sculptural image, and complementarily, appraise the pictorial or sculptural image by exploring the nature of love. Hence the book's epigraph-- ut pictura amor --'as is a picture, so is love' Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice Part 1 Vision, Imagination, and Erotic Desire Chapter 1 Figments of the Imagination: Medical and Moral Discourses on Love in the Counter-Reformation Chapter 2 The Gods of Water—Baths, Country Houses, and Their Decoration in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flanders Chapter 3 Hishikawa Moronobu and the Imprinting of ‘Love’ in Early Modern Japan Chapter 4 Chinese ‘Paintings of Beautiful Women’ and Images of Asia in a Jesuit Text Part 2 Metamorphic Imagery of Love Chapter 5 Enacting the Erotic Body: Pictorial and Spectatorial Evocations of Corporeality among Jan Gossaert and His Patrons Chapter 6 The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius’s Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1593), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597) Part 3 Optics, Aesthetics, and the Visual Poetics of Desire Chapter 7 Between the Human and the Divine: The Majālis al-ushshāq and the Materiality of Love in Early Safavid Art Chapter 8 The Painting Looks Back: Reciprocal Desire in the Seventeenth Century Part 4 Amorous Desire, Domestic Virtue, and Love’s Mirror Chapter 9 Agape, Caritas, and Conjugal Love in Paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck Chapter 10 Vermeer’s Milkmaid in the Discourse of Love Chapter 11 The Mirror as Rival: Metsu, Mimesis, and Amor in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting Part 5 Portrayals of Spousal Love Chapter 12 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Unlacing the Love Knots in Margaret of Austria’s Royal Monastery at Brou Chapter 13 Rubens, Rembrandt, and the Spousal Model/Muse Part 6 Youth, Friendship, and Other Inflections of Divine Love Chapter 14 The Dynamics of Divine Love: Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Biblical Mystery of the Visitation Chapter 15 Intimacy and Longing: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen and the Distance of Love Chapter 16 Amor Dei in Emblems for Dutch Youth Part 7 Desire, Fellowship, and Marian Mimesis Chapter 17 Marten de Vos and the Virgin Mary: Love, Mimesis and Music Chapter 18 Bernardo Accolti, Raphael, and the Sistine Madonna: The Poetics of Desire and Pictorial Generation Part 8 Picturing Love in the Marketplace Chapter 19 “For Love and Money. The Circulation of Value and Desire in Abraham Ortelius’s Album amicorum” Chapter 20 Frans Francken the Younger’s Discovery of Achilles: Desire, Deception, and Inalienable Possession Chapter 21 Desire by Candlelight: Body and Coin in Gerrit van Honthorst’s Old Woman With Coins Index Nominum