The anthropomorphic lens : : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts / / edited by Walter S. Melion, Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans ; contributors, Marisa Bass [and fourteen others].
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...
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| Superior document: | Intersections, Volume 34 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
Volume 34. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (549 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Michel Weemans and Bertrand Prévost
- 1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt / Anne-Laure van Bruaene
- 2 Monkey in the Middle / Christina Normore
- 3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel / Paul J. Smith
- 4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World / Miya Tokumitsu
- 5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed / Nathalie de Brézé
- 6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel’s Emblematic Art / Marisa Bass
- 7 The Album Αmicorum and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq / Aneta Georgievska-Shine
- 8 Picturing the ‘Living’ Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible / Pamela Merrill Brekka
- 9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the Carrara Herbal / Sarah R. Kyle
- 10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse / Elke Anna Werner
- 11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine Artifice in Haarlem circa 1600 / Walter S. Melion
- 12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the Symbol / Ralph Dekoninck
- 13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: ‘Terms’ of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance / Elizabeth J Petcu
- 14 Visage-paysage. Problème de peinture / Bertrand Prévost
- 15 Nobody’s Bruegel / Christopher P. Heuer
- 16 Morbid Fascination: Death by Bruegel / Larry Silver
- 17 Jan van Hemessen’s Anatomy of Parody / Bret L. Rothstein
- 18 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 Weemans
- Index Nominum.