Anthropomorphic Lens

Michel Weemans, Ph.D. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is Chercheur-Qualifie at the Ecole nationale superieure d'art de Bourges. His exhibition catalogues include Le paysage extravagant (2009) and Fables du paysage flamand: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril (2012). He is co-editor of Paysage sacré/Sacred Landscape (2011).Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. His books include Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck': Shaping the Netherlandish Canon (1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (2009), along with numerous edited volumes.Bret Rothstein, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, is Associate Professor of the History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting (Cambridge, 2005), as well as various articles on the history of visual culture.

A “scintillating collection” and a “generous Kunstkammer of a book.”Martha Hollander, Hofstra University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Spring 2016), pp. 255-256.

• List of Illustrations Notes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors Introduction Michel Weemans and Bertrand PrévostANTHROPOMORPHISM AND THE ORDER OF THINGSDelineating the Boundaries of the Human1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt Anne-Laure van Bruaene2 Monkey in the Middle Christina Normore3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel Paul J. Smith4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World Miya TokumitsuEmpathy and the Constitution of the Self5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed Nathalie de Brézé6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art Marisa Bass7 The ‘Album Αmicorum’ and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq Aneta Georgievska-ShineVisualizing the Body Politic8 Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot BiblePamela Merrill Brekka9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the ‘Carrara Herbal’Sarah R. Kyle10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse Elke Anna WernerFIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIALAnthropomorphosis and Its Critics11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600Walter S. Melion12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the SymbolRalph DekoninckAnthropomorphosis and Its Conditions13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance Elizabeth J. Petcu14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture Bertrand PrévostFiguring the Impossible15 Nobody’s BruegelChristopher P. Heuer16 Morbid Fascination: Death by BruegelLarry SilverMetamorphic Figuration17 Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of ParodyBret L. Rothstein18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery’s ‘Sacrifice of Cain and Abel’ for Louis Richeome’s ‘Tableaux Sacrez’ (1601) Michel WeemansIndex Nominum List of Illustrations