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Author: Ralph Dekoninck
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9004432264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 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.
Author: Walter Melion
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9004408940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.
Author: Stijn Bussels
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-01-22
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9004682643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: “Devotion,” “Art and Image Theory,” and “Vision and Contemplation.” The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists’ reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the ‘early modern eye’ as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.
Author: Annett Martini
Publisher: Giulio Busi
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 8884194350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rolando Ferri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-12-18
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1139440519
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 2003 book is a full-length study of Octauia, the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject, or fabula praetexta. The play deals with Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia, Claudius' daughter by Valeria Messalina, and with his subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. Professor Ferri presents a critical edition of the text based on a fresh re-examination of the relevant manuscripts and provides a full discussion of textual issues. In the Introduction he argues that the play, wrongly ascribed to Seneca in our MSS, was composed in the late Flavian period, and that the author relied on pre-existing historical accounts written after the death of Nero. He also discusses in detail the style and language of the play, strongly influenced by Senecan tragedy, its relationship to the other plays of the Senecan corpus, and particularly to Hercules Oetaeus, its stagecraft and post-Classical dramatic conventions, and the author's political position.
Author: Michaël Green
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9004153071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes.
Author: Arthur J. DiFuria
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-20
Total Pages: 884
ISBN-13: 9004462066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.
Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-29
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9004440402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.
Author: Gitta Bertram
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 9004464522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800.
Author: Carme López Calderón
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-02-08
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9004447687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An interpretation of the emblematic programme found in the Chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Ojos Grandes (Galicia, Spain), consisting of 58 emblems painted c.1735.
