Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700)

Stijn Bussels is Professor of Art History, especially before 1800, and head of the Department of Art History at Leiden University. Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster.Elliott D. Wise is Associate Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University.Michel Weemans is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne.

“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.”Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.

• List of FiguresNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsIntroductionStijn P.M. Bussels, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Michel Weemans, and Elliott D. WisePart 1: Devotion1 Expecting EfficacyJohn Decker2 Deus ex machina – Remarks on Early-Netherlandish Art of DevotionReindert L. Falkenburg3 Mediating the Holy: A Living Saint and the Status of the Image in Pre-Modern AugsburgAshley D. West4 Panis Angelicus: The Christ Child among Angels in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern ArtLarry Silver5 Private Devotion within the Imperial NetworkNicolas de Granvelle and Nicole Bonvalot as Followers of the Cult of The Seven Sorrows of the VirginDagmar Eichberger6 The Stained Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of the Leuven Charterhouse: Between Memoria and Spiritual Edification?Ingrid Falque7 Catechizing the CrossLee Palmer Wandel8 Temple Priests and Pharisees on Calvary: Anti-Judaism and Humanism in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Crucifixion (c.1549)Shelley Perlove9 Rubens and the Virgin MaryColette Nativel10 ‘Vulnera Christi Medicina animarum’: The Pentalpha and the Five Wounds in Willem de Wael a Vronesteyn’s Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum (1649)James Clifton11 God’s Kiss to Humanity: Seeing the Incarnation through the Eyes of Francis de SalesJoseph F. ChorpenningPart 2: Art and Image Theory12 Exemplum: Model Books, Memory, and Traces of Marian Devotion Circa 1400C. Jean Campbell13 Silver and Gold I Do Not Have: Lambert Suavius’s Saint Peter Healing the Paralytic Man (1553) and the Poor Beauty of EngravingEdward H. Wouk14 All Cretans Lie: Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Misanthrope’ in a New InterpretationJürgen Müller15 Image and Honour: Nicholas Sander and the Council of TrentWietse de Boer16 Go from Fiction to the Truth!: Mennonitism and Humanism in Van Mander’s Theory of PaintingBoudewijn Bakker17 Homo in Imagine [Impressa] Ambulat, the Proof of the (Engraved) ImageRalph Dekoninck18 The Problem of Ultraviolence in Modern Martyrology Narratives and Images, a Research ProposalPierre-Antoine FabrePart 3: Vision and Contemplation19 Quinten Massys’s Deceptions in Plain SightBret L. Rothstein20 Animal Fables of ContemplationPaul J. Smith21 Self-reflection in a Troubled Age: Gillis Anselmo’s album amicorum and an Astrolabe Made by Michiel CoignetChristine Göttler22 ‘As Did Bruegel’: David Vinckboons’ Agony in the Garden as Proleptic Sacred LandscapeArt DiFuria23 Notes on Galileo’s MoonBarbara Baert24 Hermeneutics and Allegory in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin’s Les Délices de l’esprit (1658): from Visual to Figural ExegesisAgnès GuiderdoniBibliography Walter MelionIndex Nominum