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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 current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge. Contributors: Monika Biel, Alicja Bielak, C. Jean Campbell, Tom Conley, Ralph Dekoninck, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Koenraad Jonckheere, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Leitch, Carme López Calderón, Mark A. Meadow, Walter S. Melion, Eelco Nagelsmit, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Alexandra Onuf, Bret L. Rothstein, Xavier Vert, Madeleine C. Viljoen, Mara R. Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Caecilie Weissert.

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Author:   Ralph Dekoninck ,  Agnès Guiderdoni ,  Walter Melion
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   65/2
Weight:   1.558kg
ISBN:  

9789004432253

ISBN 10:   9004432256
Pages:   734
Publication Date:   10 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: What’s in a Secret?  Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, and Walter S. Melion part 1: The Spiritual locus of Secret 1 In the Secrecy of the Cell: Late Medieval Carthusian Devotional Imagery and Meditative Practices in the Low Countries  Ingrid Falque 2 Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Soul in Manuscript MPM R 35 Vita S. Ioseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi of ca. 1600  Walter S. Melion 3 Symbols and (Un)concealed Marian Mysteries in the First Litany of Loreto Illustrated with Emblems: Peter Stoergler’s Asma Poeticum (Linz, 1636)  Carme López Calderón 4 ‘Teach Me, Reveal the Secret to My Heart’: the Role of a Spiritual Guide in the Meditative Works of Marcin Hińcza  Alicja Bielak part 2: Science and Secrecy 5 Of Grids and Divine Mystery: Gerard Mercator’s Revelation  Lee Palmer Wandel 6 What Did They See?: Science and Religion in the Anatomical Theatres of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Peter G.F. Eversmann part 3: The Secret in Matter 7 The Sienese Goldsmith and the Secrets of Florentine Disegno  C. Jean Campbell 8 An Open and Shut Case: On the Dialectic of Secrecy and Access in the Early-Modern Kunstkammer  Mark A. Meadow 9 Mysterious Noises: Orphic Strings, Rough Music, and the Sounds of Early Modern Ornament Prints  Madeleine C. Viljoen 10 ‘Insettinghe’ and ‘yegelijcx conversatie’: Understanding of the Image on the Eve of Baroque  Koenraad Jonckheere 11 Roger de Piles and the Secret of Grace  Caecilie Weissert part 4: Secrecy and Sanctity: Negotiating Secular and Sacred Registers of the Secret 12 In Abscondito: Visuality and Testimony in Raphael’s Transfiguration  Xavier Vert 13 Secrets of the Dark: Rembrandt’s Entombment (c. 1654)  Alexandra Onuf 14 Poussin and Richeome: Mystery and Figurability  Ralph Dekoninck 15 Portrait or Parable?: Pierre Mignard and the Mystery of Madame de Maintenon  Eelco Nagelsmit & Lars Cyril Nørgaard part 5: Secrets of the Ars symbolica: Emblems and Enigmas 16 Secret est à louer: Secrets and Secrecy in French Baroque Cartography, 1580–1640  Tom Conley 17 Hidden in Plain Sight: Melchior Lorck’s Emblematized Adages  Mara R. Wade 18 To Hide is to Reveal: the Paradox of Representing Secrets  Agnès Guiderdoni part 6: Challenges of the Secret: Publicity, Performance, and Play 19 Getting to How-To: Chiromancy, Physiognomy, Metoscopy and Prints in Secrets’ Service  Stephanie Leitch 20 The Answer Lies in the Eye of the Beholder: the Emblematic Ceiling Program in the Town Hall of Gdańsk  Monika Biel 21 Convents, Condottieri, and Compulsive Gamblers: Hands-On Secrets of Lorenzo Spirito’s Libro  Suzanne Karr Schmidt 22 Secrecy and the Understanding of Small Things in Early Modern Italy  Bret L. Rothstein Index Nominum

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Ralph Dekoninck is Professor of Early Modern Art History at the Université catholique de Louvain, co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA) and member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. His research focuses on early modern image theories and practices, specifically in their relation to spirituality, on Baroque festival culture, on the relationships between art and liturgy, and on the iconography of martyrdom. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Ad Imaginem. Statuts, fonctions et usages de l’image dans la littérature spirituelle jésuite du XVIIe siècle (Geneva: 2005) and La vision incarnante et l’image incarnée. Santi di Tito et Caravage (Paris: 2016). Agnès Guiderdoni is a Senior Research Associate of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium) and a Professor of Early Modern Literature at the Université catholique de Louvain, where she is the co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA). Originally a specialist of seventeenth century French literature, she more particularly studies emblematic literature and the field of figurative representations (imago figurate). She has published many articles on these topics, as well as on theoretical aspects of text-image relationships. Among her publications: in 2017, a co-edited special issue of the journal La Part de l’Œil on Force de figures. Le travail de la figurabilité entre texte et image, and a volume on Maximilianus Sandaeus, un jésuite entre mystique et symbolique in 2019, also co-edited. Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988, Emory University), is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History and Director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Northern art and art theory, including The Meditative Art: Studies on the Northern Devotional Print, 1500-1625 (Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2010).

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