Author: Walter Melion
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 9004346465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.
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: 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: Ingrid Falque
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-11-14
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9004265120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume, specialists from different fields present case studies of text-image relationships in the religious field (1400-1700) with a methodological and/or theoretical dimension.
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.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-05-23
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 9004367438
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the ways in which spaces and places of solitude were conceived of, imagined, and represented in the late medieval and early modern periods. It explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude, which have so far received only scant scholarly attention.
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: Adam Sammut
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-05-15
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9004276386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It is structured around three works of art, made or procured by Peter Paul Rubens: the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary cycle (in situ), Caravaggio’s Rosary Madonna (Vienna) and the Wrath of Christ high altarpiece (Lyon). Within the artist’s lifetime, the church and monastery were completely rebuilt, creating one of the most spectacular sacred spaces in Northern Europe. In this richly illustrated book, Adam Sammut reconceptualises early modern churches as theatres of political economy, advancing an original approach to cultural production in a time of war. Using methodologies at the cutting edge of the humanities, the place of St Paul’s is restored to the crux of Antwerp’s commercial, civic and religious life.
Author: Steven J. Cody
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9004431934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) created altarpieces of startling beauty. Steven J. Cody analyzes those remarkable paintings as a means of illuminating the artist’s career-long engagement with Christian theology.