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Anthropomorphic Lens
Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts
Av Walter Melion, Bret Rothstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3274 kr
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Anthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to …
Image and Incarnation
The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image
Av Walter Melion, Lee Palmer Wandel
Inbunden, 2015
3706 kr
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The doctrine of the Incarnation was wellspring and catalyst for theories of images verbal, material, and spiritual. Section I, “Representing the Mystery of the Incarnation”, takes up questions about the representability of the mystery. Section II, “Imago Dei and the Incarnate Word”, investigates …
Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Av Youri Desplenter, Jurgen Pieters m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1996 kr
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Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, the moral system of the Ten Commandments gradually became more prominent. The Ten Commandments proved to be a topic from which numerous proponents of …
Personification
Embodying Meaning and Emotion
Av Walter Melion, Bart Ramakers
Inbunden, 2016
4996 kr
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Personification, or prosopopeia, the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained …
Jesuit Image Theory
Av Wietse de Boer, Karl A.E. Enenkel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
3318 kr
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The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order’s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art …
Quid est sacramentum?
Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700
Av Walter Melion, Elizabeth Carson Pastan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
3769 kr
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‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative …
Quid est secretum?
Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700
Av Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
4330 kr
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Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the …
Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century
Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts
Av Gijs Versteegen, Stijn Bussels m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2531 kr
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This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors …
Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700
Av Karl A.E. Enenkel, Walter Melion
Inbunden, 2020
3280 kr
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This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700. The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the description of place in image and/or text, more than merely inviting close viewing, was often seen to call …
Ut pictura amor
The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700
Av Walter Melion, Michael Zell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
4674 kr
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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 …
