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Image and Incarnation
The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 39
The doctrine of the Incarnation was wellspring and catalyst for theories of images verbal, material, and spiritual. Section I, âRepresenting the Mystery of the Incarnationâ, takes up questions about the representability of the mystery. Section II, âImago Dei and the Incarnate Wordâ, investigates how Christâs status as the image of God was seen to license images material and spiritual. Section III, âLiterary Figurations of the Incarnationâ, considers the verbal production of images contemplating the divine and human nature of Christ. Section IV, âTranformative Analogies of Matter and Spiritâ, delves into ways that material properties and processes, in their effects on the beholder, were analogized to Christâs hypostasis. Section V, âVisualizing the Flesh of Christâ, considers the relation between the Incarnation and the Passion.
Walter Melion, Ph.D. (1988), University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Manderâs âSchilder-Boeckâ (Chicago: 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550â1625 (Philadelphia: 2009). He is series editor of Brillâs Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History.
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin â Madison. Recently she has published The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge, 2006), and edited the Brill Companion to the Christian Tradition The Eucharist in the Reformation (Brill, 2012).
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin â Madison. Recently she has published The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge, 2006), and edited the Brill Companion to the Christian Tradition The Eucharist in the Reformation (Brill, 2012).
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel
PART ONE
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 Krüger
A Meaty Incarnation: Making Sense of Divine Flesh for Aztec Christians
Jaime Lara
The Ineffability of Incarnation in Le Brunâs Silence or Sleep of the Child
Matthieu Somon
PART TWO
IMAGO DEI AND THE INCARNATE WORD
Thomas Aquinas, Sacramental Scenes, and the âAestheticsâ of Incarnation
Mark D. Jordan
The Poetics of the Image in Late Medieval Mysticism
Niklaus Largier
Incarnation, Image, and Sign: John Calvinâs Institutes of the Christian Religion & Late Medieval Visual Culture
Lee Palmer Wandel
Eye to Eye, Text to Image? Jan Provoostâs Sacred Allegory, Jan Van Ruusbroecâs Spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit, and Mystical Contemplation in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Geert Warnar
âA Just Proportion of Body and Soulâ: Emblems and Incarnational Grafting
Christopher Wild
PART THREE
LITERARY FIGURATIONS OF THE INCARNATION
From Negative Painting to Loving Imprint in Pierre De Bérulleâs Discours (1623)
Agnès Guiderdoni
Discerning Vision: Cognitive Strategies in Cornelis Everaertâs Mary Compared to the Light (c. 1511)
Bart Ramakers
The Fountain of Life in Molinet's Roman de la rose moralisé (1500)
Michael Randall
PART FOUR
TRANSFORMATIVE ANALOGIES OF MATTER AND SPIRIT
Figuring the Threshold of Incarnation: Caravaggioâs Incarnate Image of the Madonna of Loreto
Ralph Dekoninck
Super-Entanglement: Unfolding Evidence in Hieronymus Boschâs Mass of St. Gregory
Reindert Falkenburg
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
PART FIVE
VISUALIZING THE FLESH OF CHRIST
Dieu le Père en Vierge Marie. La Trinité â Pietà de Rubens
Colette Nativel
Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Missionâs Kirishitanban Story of Virgin Martyr St. Catherine of
Alexandria
Haruko Nawata Ward
Index
All those interested in the connections between the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the theory and practice of the arts in the early modern world.