Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Author:   Arthur J. DiFuria ,  Walter Melion
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   79
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Pages:   844
Publication Date:   16 December 2021
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Author:   Arthur J. DiFuria ,  Walter Melion
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   79
Weight:   1.748kg
ISBN:  

9789004109971


ISBN 10:   9004109978
Pages:   844
Publication Date:   16 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Ekphrastic Image-Making Arthur J. DiFuria and Walter S. Melion Part 1: Humanism, Print, Ekphrasis 1 'The Reader Seems to Have Seen Rather Than Read': Ekphrasis as an Instrument of Religious Persuasion in Erasmus of Rotterdam Barbara A. Kaminska 2 The Artist's Frame of Reference in Antoine Sucquet's Via Vita Aeternae Carol Barbour 3 'No Less Difficult to Paint ... Than to Describe': Chaos in Michel de Marolles's Tableaux du Temple des Muses James Clifton 4 The Edge of Ekphrasis: Bellori and Reproductive Printmaking Annie Maloney Part 2: Poem, Image, Ekphrasis 5 Mythography as Ekphrasis: Ludovico Lazzarelli's De gentilium deorum imaginibus, and the Poetics of Humanism Karl Enenkel 6 Antithesis, Ekphrasis, and Antiphrasis in Joachim du Bellay's Ruinscape, Les Antiquites de Rome Arthur J. DiFuria 7 Through a Poet's Eyes: Jan van der Noot's Poem on the Capital Sins Caecilie Weissert With a translation of the poem by Anna Dlabacova 8 Virtual Reality of the Early Modern Anatomical Poem in Denmark and England Ivana Bicak Part 3: Sacred Ekphrasis 9 Robert Campin and Jan van Ruusbroec: Spiritual Conflagrations and Ekphrastic Mysticism Elliott D. Wise 10 Transfiguring Raphael, Reforming Christ: Ekphrastic Image-Making in Nicolas Poussin's The Miracle of St. Francis Xavier Steffen Zierholz 11 Levels to Ekphrasis in the Tableaux de la Penitence Lars Cyril Norgaard Part 4: Ekphrastic Images 12 Art between Fact and Fantasy: Tracing the Afterlife of Ekphrastic Architecture in Renaissance Italy Femke Speelberg 13 Ekphrasis and Ovidian Poetics in Hendrick Goltzius's Landscape with Venus and Adonis of ca. 1598 Walter S. Melion 14 Rembrandt's Judas Returning the Silver of 1629: Visual and Literary Associations Amy Golahny 15 'By This Blood Most Chaste [...]' (Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1.59): Passion and Politics in Rembrandt's Lucretia of 1666 Shelley Perlove 16 Finding, Stealing, Translating: The Subject(s) of Tintoretto's Brera Scuola Grande di San Marco Istoria Letha C. Ch'ien Part 5: Nature, Art, Ekphrasis 17 Reveries of the Source Christopher P. Heuer 18 Ekphrasis and the Romance of Botany in the Age of Pietro Andrea Mattioli April Oettinger part 6: Global Ekphrasis 19 Seeing 'de flandes' Stephanie Porras 20 'Escribieron en mi memoria': Ekphrasis in the Pastoral Fiction of New Spain Teresa Clifton 21 Ekphrasis and the Global Eighteenth Century: A.E. van Braam Houckgeest's Collection of Chinese Art Dawn Odell Index Nominum

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Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988, University of California, Berkeley) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. He has published widely on Netherlandish art and art theory, on early modern printmaking, and on meditative, mnemonic, and emblematic image-making, amongst other topics. Arthur J. DiFuria, Ph.D. (2008, University of Delaware) is Chair and Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design. In addition to several articles on sixteenth-century antiquarianism, prints, and drawings, he is the editor of Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2016) and the author of Maarten van Heemskerck's Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Netherlandish Cult of Ruins (Brill, 2019).

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