Overview

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

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Author:   Walter Melion ,  James Clifton ,  Michel Weemans
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   33
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 6.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.715kg
ISBN:  

9789004262003

ISBN 10:   9004262008
Pages:   1090
Publication Date:   17 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Notes on the Editors, Notes on Contributors, List of Illustrations Introduction: Visual Exegesis WALTER S. MELION I. VISUAL TYPOLOGIES 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 FRANCOIS L'Epitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens. Rhetorique et Exegese Visuelle COLETTE NATIVEL A New Interpretation of Vermeer's Allegory of Faith: Vividness and Figural Interpretation CAROLINE VAN ECK II. VISUAL ANALOGY AS AN EXEGETICAL INSTRUMENT 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-Grace TATIANA SENKEVITCH III. EXEGETICAL IMAGERY OF SPIRITUAL CONFORMATION '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 Dorotheos: 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 IV. READING THE BIBLE THROUGH IMAGES 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 AGNES GUIDERDONI 'The Glory of the Last House' (Haggai 2: 9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai SHELLEY PERLOVE V. VISUAL INFLECTIONS OF TEXTUAL AUTHORITY Saints amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg's Pre-Reformatory Art: A New Exegesis of Durer's Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand BIRGIT ULRIKE MUENCH Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandisement 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 JUERGEN MUELLER Bruegel's Biblical Kings LARRY SILVER VI. EMBLEMATIC IMAGES AND THE DISCERNMENT OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius' Paintings and Emblems NATHALIE DE BREZE Exegetical Immersion: The Festivities on the Occasion of Francis de Sales's Canonization (1665-1667) AGNES GUIDERDONI Old Emblems, New Meaning: A Critical Visual Account of the Reformation in De Hooghe's Hieroglyphica TRUDELIEN VAN 'T HOF VII. PREFIGURATION AND TRANSFIGURATION Vasari and The Transfiguration of Christ: Converging the Testaments and Competing with Predecessors ALEXANDER LINKE Rubens's Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death: Unveiling the Glory of God BARBARA HAEGER Index Nominum

Reviews

This book is an encyclopedic treasury of insights from explorations of visual exegesis in relation to biblical interpretation ... The richness, fullness, and insights from this book cannot be overestimated, both for specialists and for those who want to get acquainted with visual hermeneutics for the first time. Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 442-444.

This book is an encyclopedic treasury of insights from explorations of visual exegesis in relation to biblical interpretation ... The richness, fullness, and insights from this book cannot be overestimated, both for specialists and for those who want to get acquainted with visual hermeneutics for the first time. Donald K. McKim, Germantown, Tennessee. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2015), pp. 442-444.

Author Information

Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. His books include Karel van Mander's 'Schilder-Boeck': Shaping the Netherlandish Canon (1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (2009), along with numerous edited volumes. James Clifton, Ph.D. (1987) in Art History, Princeton University, is Director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Curator in Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has co-curating numerous exhibitions and co-authored numerous monographic catalogues, including A Portrait of the Artist, 1525-1825 (2005) and The Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825 (2009). Michel Weemans, Ph.D. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is Chercheur-Qualifie at the Ecole nationale superieure d'art de Bourges. His exhibition catalogues include Le paysage extravagant (2009) and Fables du paysage flamand: Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril (2012). He is co-editor of Paysage sacré/Sacred Landscape (2011).

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