Personification

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published monographs, edited volumes, and articles on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.Bart Ramakers is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature at the University of Groningen. He specialises in medieval and sixteenth-century drama and has a particular interest in the intersections between performative and visual culture. He is an editor of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ).

• Notes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsPersonification: An IntroductionWalter S. Melion and Bart RamakersPART 1 - Cognitive Perspectives on Personification1. Allegorical Personification and Embodied CognitionJean BocharovaPART 2 - Personification and the Critical Tradition2. Dante and St. Francis: Shaping Lives, Reshaping AllegoryJeremy Tambling3. Personification, Power, and the Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern English PoetryWilliam Rhodes4. The Personification of the Human Subject in Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneBrenda MachoskyPART 3 - Personification and the Modalities of Figuration5. Framework, Personification, and Pisanello’s PoeticsC. Jean Campbell6. The Triumph of Truth in an Age of Confessional ConflictJames Clifton7. The Mystical Experience—Between Personification and Incarnation: The Idea Vitae Teresianae Iconibus Symbolicis Expressa (Antwerp, Jacob Mesens: 1680s)Ralph DekoninckPART 4 - Personification on Stage: Forces of Living Presence8. From the Parade to the Stage: Evolution and Significance of Personifications in Lyon’s Sotties (1566–1610)Katell Lavéant9. Personification in Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three EstatesGreg Walker10. Both One and the Other: The Educational Value of Personification in the Female Humanist Theatre of Peeter Heyns (1537–1598)Alisa van de Haar11. Dirty from Behind, Pearly in Front: Lady World in Rhetoricians’ DramaBart Ramakers12. Mute Poem, Speaking Picture: The Personification of the Paragone in Shakespeare’s Timon of AthensJennifer A. Royston13. The Politics of Personification in the Jacobean Lord Mayors’ ShowsSusan L. AndersonPART 5 - Jesuit Approaches to Personification14. Figured Personification and Parabolic Embodiment in Jan David’s Occasio Arrepta, NeglectaWalter S. Melion15. Double Meaning of Personification in Early Modern Thesis Prints of the Southern Low Countries: Between Noetic and Encomiastic RepresentationGwendoline De Mûelenaere16. Vermeer, the Art of Meditation, and the Allegory of FaithAneta Georgievska-ShinePART 6 - Personifying Charity17. Personifications of Caritas as Reflexive FiguresCaecilie Weissert18. Maarten van Heemskerck’s Caritas: Personifiying Virtue, Animating Stone With Paint, Imaging the Image Debate Arthur J. Difuria19. Abraham Bloemaert and Caritas: A Lesson in PerceptionCaroline O. FowlerPART 7 - Personifying Life and Afterlife, Trial and Retribution20. The Duchess and the Cadaver: Doubling and Microarchitecture in Late Medieval Art (with Alice Chaucer and John Lydgate)Elizabeth Fowler21. ‘But You Are Blind, and Know Not What Is in You’: ‘A.L’, the Fraudulent Judge, and the Coerced ConscienceJune WaudbyPART 8 - Personification and the Assertion of Allegorical Order22. Precarious Personification: Fortuna in the Artist’s CabinetLisa Rosenthal 23. Producing the Legible Body: Personification, the Beholder, and Tiepolo’s Würzburg Frescos Max WeintraubPART 9 - The Four Continents: Sources and Sentiments24. The Personification of Africa with an Elephant-Head Crest in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1603)Joaneath Spicer25. The Four Continents in Seventeenth-Century Embroidery and the Making of English FemininityHeather A. HughesIndex Nominum