Ad vivum? : : visual materials and the vocabulary of life-likeness in Europe before 1800 / / edited by Thomas Balfe, Joanna Woodall, Claus Zittel.

• TeilnehmendeR: Balfe, Thomas,; Woodall, Joanna,; Zittel, Claus,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages).

The term ad vivum and its cognates al vivo , au vif , nach dem Leben and naer het leven have been applied since the thirteenth century to depictions designated as from, to or after (the) life. This book explores the issues raised by this vocabulary and related terminology with reference to visual ma...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgements
• Illustrations
• Notes on the Editors
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction: From Living Presence to Lively Likeness – the Lives of ad vivum / Thomas Balfe and Joanna Woodall
• Naer het leven: between Image-Generating Techniques and Aesthetic Mediation / Robert Felfe
• Ad vivum Images and Knowledge of Nature in Early Modern Europe / Sachiko Kusukawa
• Paintworks au vif to Paintings from Life: Early Netherlandish Paintings in the Round and the Invention of Indexicality / Noa Turel
• Cities under Siege Portrayed ad vivum in Early Netherlandish Prints (1520–1565) / Pieter Martens
• ‘Jerusalem naert Leven’? Envisioning the Holy City in the Low Countries (1525–1575) / Daan van Heesch
• Coming to Life at the Sacro Monte of Varallo: the Sacred Image al vivo in Post-Tridentine Italy / Carla Benzan
• The Vital Breath: Mathematical Visualizations in England and the Netherlands around 1600 / Eleanor Chan
• Nature au naturel in Late-Seventeenth-Century France / José Beltrán
• Drawing the Cadaver ad vivum: Gérard de Lairesse’s Illustrations for Govard Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis / Mechthild Fend
• The Mechanism and Materials of Painting Colour ad vivum in the Eighteenth Century / Richard Mulholland
• Back Matter
• Index Nominum.