Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300–1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. He has published widely on early modern image cultures, on the art and art theory of the Low Countries, on scriptural image-making, on emblems and emblematics, and on Jesuit image theory.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsPart 1: Introduction: The Hermeneutic and Exegetical Potential of Landscapes1 Introduction: Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700Walter S. Melion2 Parabolic, Periphrastic, and Emblematic Ekphrasis in Hans Bol’s Emblemata Evangelica of 1585Walter S. MelionPart 2: Constructions of Identity: Landscapes and the Description of Reality3 Landscape Description and the Hermeneutics of Neo-Latin Autobiography: the Case of Jacopo SannazaroKarl Enenkel4 Landscape in Marcus Gheeraerts’s Fable IllustrationsPaul J. Smith5 Order or Variety? Pieter Bruegel and the Aesthetics of LandscapeBoudewijn Bakker6 Schilderachtig: A Rhyparographic View of Early 17th-Century Dutch Landscape PaintingReindert Falkenburg7 Landscape with Landmark: Jacob van Ruisdael’s Panorama of Amsterdam (1665–1670)Stijn Bussels8 Jacob van Ruisdael’s The Jewish Cemetery, c. 1654–1655: Religious Toleration, Dutch Identity, and Divine TimeShelley Perlove9 ‘Car la terre ici n’est telle qu’un fol l’estime’: Landscape Description as an Interpretative Tool in Two Early Modern Poems on New FranceWilliam M. BartonPart 3: Constructions of Artificial Landscapes: Gardens, Villegiatura, Ruins10 Hermeneutics and the Early Modern Garden: Ingenuity, Sociability, EducationDenis Ribouillault11 The Politics of Space of the Burgundian GardenMargaret Goehring12 The Stratigraphy of Poetic Landscape at the Esquiline VillaSarah McPhee13 Poussin’s Allegory of RuinsAndrew Hui14 ‘False Art’s Insolent Address’: The Enchanted Garden in Early Modern Literature and Landscape DesignLuke MorganPart 4: Constructions of Imaginary Landscapes15 Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the FuriosoTroy Tower16 Epic Salvation: Christ’s Descent into Hell and the Landscape of the Underworld in Neo-Latin Christian EpicLukas Reddemann17 World Landscape as Visual Exegesis: Herri met de Bles’s Penitent Saint JeromeMichel Weemans18 Cities of the Dead: Utopian Spaces, the Grotesque, and the Landscape of Violence in Early Modern FranceKathleen LongIndex Nominum