W. S. Melion, J.Clifton & M. Weemans (dir.) Imago exegetica. Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700

Imago exegetica. Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700

Sous la direction de Walter S. Melion, James Clifton et Michel Weemans

Brill, collection "« Intersections » volume 33", 2014

EAN 9789004262003.

Les essais de ce volume analysent en profondeur les relations entre herméneutique verbale et visuelle dans le contexte spécifique de la culture biblique. Les théologiens, les historiens de l’art, de la religion ou de la littérature s’accordent de plus en plus à reconnaître que l’exégèse n’est pas seulement textuelle, ou aniconique, mais qu’au contraire, s’appuyant sur les Saintes Écritures riches elles-mêmes en images verbales et en figures rhétoriques, elle a eu recours aux dispositifs visuels les plus variés. L'exégèse visuelle, qui porte sur la Bible, le texte faisant autorité par excellence, a aussi fourni un modèle pour l'interprétation d'autres types de textes au moyen d'images. Envisagées sous cet angle, les images exégétiques s’avèrent cruciales pour comprendre la constitution visuelle du sens non seulement dans le champ du sacré mais aussi du profane.

 

Avec des contributions de Giovanni Careri, Joseph Chorpenning, James Clifton, Nathalie de Brézé, Maria Deiters, Ralph Dekoninck, Arthur diFuria, Caroline van Eck, Dagmar Eichberger, Ingrid Falque, Wim François, Merel Groentjes, Agnès Guiderdoni, Barbara Haeger, Alexander Linke, Walter Melion, Jürgen Müller, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Colette Nativel, Wolfgang Neuber, Shelley Perlove, Leopoldine Prosperetti, Todd Richardson, Bret Rothstein, Tatiana Senkevitch, Larry Silver, Jamie Smith, Trudelien van 't Hof, Michel Weemans, Elliott Wise.

 

TABLE :

 

Introduction: Visual Exegesis

Walter S. Melion

 

I. VISUAL TYPOLOGIES.

 

Jan van Eyck’s Typology of Spiritual Knighthood in the Van der Paele Madonna

Jamie L. Smith

 

Typology at its Limits: Visual Exegesis and Eschatology in the Sistine Chapel

Giovanni Careri

 

Typology—Back with a Vengeance! Texts, Images, and Marginal Glosses in Vorsterman’s 1534 Dutch Bible

Wim François

 

L’Épitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens. Rhétorique et Exégèse Visuelle

Colette Nativel

 

A New Interpretation of Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith: Vividness and Figural Interpretation

Caroline Van Eck

 

II. VISUAL ANALOGY AS AN EXEGETICAL INSTRUMENT

 

Empathy as a Type of Early Netherlandish Visual Wit

Bret L. Rothstein

 

Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert’s Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523

Walter S. Melion

 

The Preaching of John the Baptist: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis and Expanded Typology

Michel Weemans

 

Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen

Todd M. Richardson

 

Becoming Elijah: The Sleep of Elijah by Philippe de Champaigne from the Convent of the Val-de-Grâce

Tatiana Senkevitch

 

III. EXEGETICAL IMAGERY OF SPIRITUAL CONFORMATION

 

‘See the Bridegroom Cometh; Go Out and Meet Him’: On Spiritual Progress and Mystical Union in Early Netherlandish Painting

Ingrid Falque

 

Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion

Elliott D. Wise

 

Helenus and Dorotheos: Marten de Vos and the Desert Fathers

Leopoldine Van Hogendorp Prosperetti

 

Lectio Divina and Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Interconnection of Divine and Human Hearts

Joseph F. Chorpenning

 

IV. READING THE BIBLE THROUGH IMAGES

 

Illumination of Images and Illumination through the Image—Functions and Concepts of Gospel Illustrations in the Bible of the Nuremberg Patrician Martin Pfinzing

Maria Deiters

 

Clades Judaeae Gentis: Patterns of Destruction

Merel Groentjes 

 

Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century

James Clifton

 

Framing Devices and Exegetical Strategies in Northern Illustrated Spiritual Literature

Ralph Dekoninck & Agnès Guiderdoni

 

‘The Glory of the Last House’ (Haggai 2: 9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai

Shelley Perlove

 

V. VISUAL INFLECTIONS OF TEXTUAL AUTHORITY

 

Saints amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg’s Pre-Reformatory Art: A New Exegesis of Dürer’s Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Birgit Ulrike Münch

 

Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandisement

Wolfgang Neuber

 

Gideon, an Old Testament Hero in Action: Burgundian Symbolism and the Visual Language of Protestant Flanders

Dagmar Eichberger

 

Maerten van Heemskerck’s Heliodorus Driven from the Temple: Translatio and the Interrogative Print

Arthur J. Difuria

 

Of Churches, Heretics, and Other Guides of the Blind: The Fall of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Esthetics of Subversion

Jürgen Müller

 

Bruegel's Biblical Kings

Larry Silver

 

VI. EMBLEMATIC IMAGES AND THE DISCERNMENT OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH

 

From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius’ Paintings and Emblems

Nathalie De Brézé

 

Exegetical Immersion: The Festivities on the Occasion of Francis de Sales’s Canonization (1665-1667)

Agnès Guiderdoni

 

Old Emblems, New Meaning: A Critical Visual Account of the Reformation in De Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica

Trudelien Van’t Hof

 

VII. PREFIGURATION AND TRANSFIGURATION

 

Vasari and The Transfiguration of Christ: Converging the Testaments and Competing with Predecessors

Alexander Linke

 

Rubens’s Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death: Unveiling the Glory of God

Barbara Haeger

 

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