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Title Image and Incarnation : the early modern doctrine of the pictorial image / edited by Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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Series Intersections, interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; v. 39
Intersections. Interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; v. 39
Contents Representing the mystery of the Incarnation -- Medietas / Mediator and the Geometry of Incarnation / Herbert L. Kessler -- Mute mysteries of the divine logos : on the pictorial poetics of Incarnation / Klaus Kruger -- A meaty Incarnation: making sense of divine flesh for Aztec Christians / Jaime Lara -- The ineffability of Incarnation in Le Brun's Silence or Sleep of the Child / Matthieu Somon -- Imago Dei and the incarnate word Thomas Aquinas, sacramental scenes, and the 'aesthetics' of Incarnation /Mark D. Jordan -- The poetics of the image in late medieval mysticism / Niklaus Largier -- Incarnation, image, and sign : John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian religion & late medieval visual culture / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Eye to eye, text to image? Jan Provoost's sacred allegory, Jan Van Ruusbroec's Spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit, and mystical contemplation in the Late Medieval Low countries / Geert Warnar -- A just proportion of body and soul : emblems and incarnational grafting / Christopher Wild -- Literary figurations of the Incarnation -- From negative painting to loving imprint in Pierre De Berulle's discours (1623) / Agnes Guiderdoni -- Discerning vision : cognitive strategies in Cornelis Everaert's Mary compared to the Light (c. 1511) / Bart Ramakers -- The fountain of life in Molinet's Roman de la Rose Moralise (1500) -- Transformative analogies of matter and spirit -- Figuring the threshold of Incarnation : Caravaggio's incarnate image of the Madonna of Loreto / Ralph Dekoninck -- Super-entanglement : unfolding evidence in Hieronymus Bosch's Mass of St. Gregory -- The mystery of the Incarnation and the art of painting / Dalia Judovitz -- Convent and Cubiculum Cordis: the incarnational thematic of materiality in the Cistercian prayerbook of Martin Boschman (1610) / Walter S. Melion -- Visualizing the flesh of Christ -- Dieu le Pere en Vierge Marie. La Trinite-Pieta de Rubens Colette Nativel -- Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban story of Virgin -- Martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria / Haruko Nawata Ward
Summary These essays explore various inflections of the relation between image-making and incarnation doctrine. They illumine ways this fundamental mystery was construed as representable, and how it was seen to license the representation of other mysteries of faith
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Incarnation.
Incarnation in art.
Incarnation in literature.
Image of God.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Image of God
Incarnation
Incarnation in art
Incarnation in literature
Form Electronic book
Author Melion, Walter S., editor.
Wandel, Lee Palmer, editor.
ISBN 9789004300514
9004300511