Notes on the Editors
Arthur J. DiFuria
is Chair and Professor of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, specializing in early modern northern European art. While at Savannah, he has been a been a recipient of the Deanâs Award for Teaching Excellence (2015) and a University Presidential Fellow (2011). The Historians of Netherlandish Art and the Kress foundation have also funded his research. Since completing his dissertation on Maarten van Heemskerckâs drawing of ruins (2008), he has published essays in the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, Brillâs Intersections series, and the Intellectual History Review. He is the editor of Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives (2016), and his book, Maarten van Heemskerckâs Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Netherlandish Cult of Ruins, appeared in 2019.
Walter Melion
is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has taught since 2004 and currently directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. He chaired the Art History Department in 2011â2014 and 2015â2017. He was previously Professor and Chair of Art History at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius. In addition to a four-part monograph on Jerónimo Nadalâs Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia (2003, 2005, 2007, 2014), and exhibition catalogues on scriptural illustration and on religious allegory in Dutch and Flemish prints of the 16th and 17th centuries (2009 & 2019), his books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Manderâs âSchilder-Boeckâ (1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550â1625 (2009). He is co-editor of more than twenty volumes, including Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008), Early Modern Eyes (2010), Meditatio â Refashioning the Self: Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (2010), The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400â1700 (2011), Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500â1700 (2012), Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400â1700 (2014), The Anthropomorphic Lens: Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism, and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts (2014), Image and Incarnation (2015), Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion (2016), Jesuit Image Theory (2016), Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1400â1700 (2018), Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400â1700 (2019), Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets and Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1500â1700, and Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Landscape, 1500â1700. His articles number more than seventy. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. Between 2014 and 2015, he was Chaire Francqui at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Melion has been the recipient of the 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Catholic Historical Association, and the 2019 Baker Award of the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and has been Scholar in Residence at The Newberry Library since 2017. He is series editor of Brillâs Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History. Three books in progress are approaching completion: a translation with commentary of Karel van Manderâs Den grondt der edel vry schilderconst, Imago veridica: The Form, Function, and Argument of Joannes David, S.J.âs Four Latin Emblem Books and Cubiculum cordis: Printed Images as Meditative Schemata in Customized Dutch and Flemish Manuscript Prayerbooks, 1550â1650. Former President of the Sixteenth Century Society, Melion was recently elected President of the Historians of Netherlandish Art.