Imago exegetica : : visual images as exegetical instruments, 1400-1700 / / edited by Walter S. Melion, James Clifton, and Michel Weemans.

• Author: Lovis Corinth Colloquium
• TeilnehmendeR: Melion, Walter S.,; Clifton, James, 1958-; Weemans, Michel,; Lovis Corinth Colloquium
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1008 pages ); illustrations
• Notes: "Emory University, Lovis Corinth Colloquium IV."

This volume consists of essays that pose fundamental questions about the relation between verbal and visual hermeneutics, especially as relates to biblical culture. Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, was neither solely textual nor aniconic; on the contrary, following from Scripture itself, which is replete with verbal images and rhetorical figures, exegesis has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. In turn, visual exegesis, since it concerns the most authoritative of texts, supplied a template for the interpretation of other kinds of significant text by means of images. Seen in this light, exegetical images prove crucial to understanding how meaning was constituted visually, not only in the sacred sphere but also in the secular. Contributors include Giovanni Careri, Joseph Chorpenning, James Clifton, Nathalie de Brézé, Maria Deiters, Ralph Dekoninck, Arthur diFuria, Caroline van Eck, Dagmar Eichberger, Ingrid Falque, Wim François, Merel Groentjes, Agnès Guiderdoni, Barbara Haeger, Alexander Linke, Walter Melion, Jürgen Müller, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Colette Nativel, Wolfgang Neuber, Shelley Perlove, Leopoldine Prosperetti, Todd Richardson, Bret Rothstein, Tatiana Senkevitch, Larry Silver, Jamie Smith, Trudelien van 't Hof, Michel Weemans, and Elliott Wise

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Visual Exegesis and Pieter Bruegel’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery / Walter S. Melion -- Jan van Eyck’s Typology of Spiritual Knighthood in the Van der Paele Madonna / Jamie L. Smith -- Typology at its Limits: Visual Exegesis and Eschatology in the Sistine Chapel / Giovanni Careri -- Typology – Back with a Vengeance! Texts, Images, and Marginal Glosses in Vorsterman’s 1534 Dutch Bible / Wim François -- L’Épitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens. Rhétorique et exégèse visuelle / Colette Nativel -- A New Interpretation of Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith: Vividness and Figural Interpretation / Caroline van Eck -- Empathy as a Type of Early Netherlandish Visual Wit / Bret L. Rothstein -- Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert’s Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523 / Walter S. Melion -- The Preaching of John the Baptist: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis and Expanded Typology / Michel Weemans -- Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen / Todd M. Richardson -- Becoming Elijah: The Sleep of Elijah by Philippe de Champaigne from the Convent of the Val-de-Grâce / Tatiana Senkevitch -- ‘See the Bridegroom Cometh; Go Out and Meet Him’: On Spiritual Progress and Mystical Union in Early Netherlandish Painting / Ingrid Falque -- Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion / Elliott D. Wise -- Helenus and Dorotheus: Marten de Vos and the Desert Fathers / Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti -- Lectio Divina and Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Interconnection of Divine and Human Hearts / Joseph F. Chorpenning -- Illumination of Images and Illumination through the Image – Functions and Concepts of Gospel Illustrations in the Bible of the Nuremberg Patrician Martin Pfinzing / Maria Deiters -- Clades Judaeae Gentis: Patterns of Destruction / Merel Groentjes -- Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century / James Clifton -- Framing Devices and Exegetical Strategies in Northern Illustrated Spiritual Literature / Ralph Dekoninck and Agnès Guiderdoni -- ‘The Glory of the Last House’ (Haggai 2:9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai / Shelley Perlove -- Saints Amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg’s Pre-Reformation Art: A New Exegesis of Dürer’s Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand / Birgit Ulrike Münch -- Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525–1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandizement / Wolfgang Neuber -- Gideon, an Old Testament Hero in Action: Burgundian Symbolism and the Visual Language of Protestant Flanders / Dagmar Eichberger -- Maerten van Heemskerck’s Heliodorus Driven from the Temple: Translatio and the Interrogative Print / Arthur J. DiFuria -- Of Churches, Heretics, and Other Guides of the Blind: The Fall of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Esthetics of Subversion / Jürgen Müller -- Bruegel’s Biblical Kings / Larry Silver -- From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius’ Paintings and Emblems / Nathalie de BrézéSurname.