Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700): Festschrift for Walter S. Melion(88 Intersections)

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.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction  Stijn P.M. Bussels, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Michel Weemans, and Elliott D. Wise Part 1: Devotion 1 Expecting Efficacy  John Decker 2 Deus ex machina – Remarks on Early-Netherlandish Art of Devotion  Reindert L. Falkenburg 3 Mediating the Holy: A Living Saint and the Status of the Image in Pre-Modern Augsburg  Ashley D. West 4 Panis Angelicus: The Christ Child among Angels in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Art  Larry Silver 5 Private Devotion within the Imperial Network  Nicolas de Granvelle and Nicole Bonvalot as Followers of the Cult of The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin  Dagmar Eichberger 6 The Stained Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of the Leuven Charterhouse: Between Memoria and Spiritual Edification?  Ingrid Falque 7 Catechizing the Cross  Lee Palmer Wandel 8 Temple Priests and Pharisees on Calvary: Anti-Judaism and Humanism in Maarten van Heemskerck’s Crucifixion (c.1549)  Shelley Perlove 9 Rubens and the Virgin Mary  Colette Nativel 10 ‘Vulnera Christi Medicina animarum’: The Pentalpha and the Five Wounds in Willem de Wael a Vronesteyn’s Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum (1649)  James Clifton 11 God’s Kiss to Humanity: Seeing the Incarnation through the Eyes of Francis de Sales  Joseph F. Chorpenning Part 2: Art and Image Theory 12 Exemplum: Model Books, Memory, and Traces of Marian Devotion Circa 1400  C. Jean Campbell 13 Silver and Gold I Do Not Have: Lambert Suavius’s Saint Peter Healing the Paralytic Man (1553) and the Poor Beauty of Engraving  Edward H. Wouk 14 All Cretans Lie: Pieter Bruegel’s ‘Misanthrope’ in a New Interpretation  Jürgen Müller 15 Image and Honour: Nicholas Sander and the Council of Trent  Wietse de Boer 16 Go from Fiction to the Truth!: Mennonitism and Humanism in Van Mander’s Theory of Painting  Boudewijn Bakker 17 Homo in Imagine [Impressa] Ambulat, the Proof of the (Engraved) Image  Ralph Dekoninck 18 The Problem of Ultraviolence in Modern Martyrology Narratives and Images, a Research Proposal  Pierre-Antoine Fabre Part 3: Vision and Contemplation 19 Quinten Massys’s Deceptions in Plain Sight  Bret L. Rothstein 20 Animal Fables of Contemplation  Paul J. Smith 21 Self-reflection in a Troubled Age: Gillis Anselmo’s album amicorum and an Astrolabe Made by Michiel Coignet  Christine Göttler 22 ‘As Did Bruegel’: David Vinckboons’ Agony in the Garden as Proleptic Sacred Landscape  Art DiFuria 23 Notes on Galileo’s Moon  Barbara Baert 24 Hermeneutics and Allegory in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin’s Les Délices de l’esprit (1658): from Visual to Figural Exegesis  Agnès Guiderdoni Bibliography Walter Melion Index Nominum

About the Author :
Stijn Bussels is Professor of Art History, especially before 1800, and head of the Department of Art History at Leiden University.

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster.

Elliott D. Wise is Associate Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University.

Michel Weemans is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne.

Review :
“Intersections is an eminently useful […] series that collects recent scholarly essays on topics of interest to nearly every subfield in early modern studies.” Anne Good, Reinhardt University. In: Itinerario, Vol. 35, No. 2 (August 2011), p. 106.