Image and Incarnation : the early modern doctrine of the pictorial image / edited by Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel.

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.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Melion, Walter S. (Editor), Wandel, Lee Palmer (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Intersections. Interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; v. 39.
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Table of 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.