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Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe, 1500â1700
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 79
In epideictic oratory, ekphrasis is typically identified as an advanced rhetorical exercise that verbally reproduces the experience of viewing a person, place, or thing; more specifically, it often purports to replicate the experience of viewing a work of art. Not only what was seen, but also how it was beheld, and the emotions attendant upon first viewing it, are implicitly construed as recoverable, indeed reproducible.
This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode: such pictures claim to reconstitute works of art that solely survived in the textual form of an ekphrasis; or they invite the beholder to respond to a picture in the way s/he responds to a stirring verbal image; or they call attention to their status as an image, in the way that ekphrasis, as a rhetorical figure, makes one conscious of the process of image-making; or finally, they foreground the artistâs or the viewerâs agency, in the way that the rhetor or auditor is adduced as agent of the image being verbally produced.
Contributors: Carol Elaine Barbour, Ivana BiÄak, Letha Châien, James Clifton, Teresa Clifton, Karl Enenkel, Arthur DiFuria, Christopher Heuer, Barbara Kaminska, Annie Maloney, Annie McEwen, Walter Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Dawn Odell, April Oettinger, Shelley Perlove, Stephanie Porras, Femke Speelberg, Caecilie Weissert, Elliott Wise, and Steffen Zierholz.
This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode: such pictures claim to reconstitute works of art that solely survived in the textual form of an ekphrasis; or they invite the beholder to respond to a picture in the way s/he responds to a stirring verbal image; or they call attention to their status as an image, in the way that ekphrasis, as a rhetorical figure, makes one conscious of the process of image-making; or finally, they foreground the artistâs or the viewerâs agency, in the way that the rhetor or auditor is adduced as agent of the image being verbally produced.
Contributors: Carol Elaine Barbour, Ivana BiÄak, Letha Châien, James Clifton, Teresa Clifton, Karl Enenkel, Arthur DiFuria, Christopher Heuer, Barbara Kaminska, Annie Maloney, Annie McEwen, Walter Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Dawn Odell, April Oettinger, Shelley Perlove, Stephanie Porras, Femke Speelberg, Caecilie Weissert, Elliott Wise, and Steffen Zierholz.
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 Heemskerckâs Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Netherlandish Cult of Ruins (Brill, 2019).
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 Heemskerckâs Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Netherlandish Cult of Ruins (Brill, 2019).
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Ekphrastic Image-Making
âArthur J. DiFuria and Walter S. Melion
1 âThe Reader Seems to Have Seen Rather Than Readâ: Ekphrasis as an Instrument of Religious Persuasion in Erasmus of Rotterdam
âBarbara A. Kaminska
2 The Artistâs Frame of Reference in Antoine Sucquetâs Via Vita Aeternae
âCarol Barbour
3 âNo Less Difficult to Paint ⦠Than to Describeâ: Chaos in Michel de Marollesâs Tableaux du Temple des Muses
âJames Clifton
4 The Edge of Ekphrasis: Bellori and Reproductive Printmaking
âAnnie Maloney
5 Mythography as Ekphrasis: Ludovico Lazzarelliâs De gentilium deorum imaginibus, and the Poetics of Humanism
âKarl Enenkel
6 Antithesis, Ekphrasis, and Antiphrasis in Joachim du Bellayâs Ruinscape, Les Antiquités de Rome
âArthur J. DiFuria
7 Through a Poetâs Eyes: Jan van der Nootâs Poem on the Capital Sins
âCaecilie Weissert
âWith a translation of the poem by Anna Dlabacova
8 Virtual Reality of the Early Modern Anatomical Poem in Denmark and England
âIvana BiÄak
9 Robert Campin and Jan van Ruusbroec: Spiritual Conflagrations and Ekphrastic Mysticism
âElliott D. Wise
10 Transfiguring Raphael, Reforming Christ: Ekphrastic Image-Making in Nicolas Poussinâs The Miracle of St. Francis Xavier
âSteffen Zierholz
11 Levels to Ekphrasis in the Tableaux de la Pénitence
âLars Cyril Nørgaard
12 Art between Fact and Fantasy: Tracing the Afterlife of Ekphrastic Architecture in Renaissance Italy
âFemke Speelberg
13 Ekphrasis and Ovidian Poetics in Hendrick Goltziusâs Landscape with Venus and Adonis of ca. 1598
âWalter S. Melion
14 Rembrandtâs Judas Returning the Silver of 1629: Visual and Literary Associations
âAmy Golahny
15 âBy This Blood Most Chaste [â¦]â (Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1.59): Passion and Politics in Rembrandtâs Lucretia of 1666
âShelley Perlove
16 Finding, Stealing, Translating: The Subject(s) of Tintorettoâs Brera Scuola Grande di San Marco Istoria
âLetha C. Châien
17 Reveries of the Source
âChristopher P. Heuer
18 Ekphrasis and the Romance of Botany in the Age of Pietro Andrea Mattioli
âApril Oettinger
19 Seeing âde flandesâ
âStephanie Porras
20 âEscribieron en mi memoriaâ: Ekphrasis in the Pastoral Fiction of New Spain
âTeresa Clifton
21 Ekphrasis and the Global Eighteenth Century: A.E. van Braam Houckgeestâs Collection of Chinese Art
âDawn Odell
Index Nominum
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Ekphrastic Image-Making
âArthur J. DiFuria and Walter S. Melion
Part 1: Humanism, Print, Ekphrasis
1 âThe Reader Seems to Have Seen Rather Than Readâ: Ekphrasis as an Instrument of Religious Persuasion in Erasmus of Rotterdam
âBarbara A. Kaminska
2 The Artistâs Frame of Reference in Antoine Sucquetâs Via Vita Aeternae
âCarol Barbour
3 âNo Less Difficult to Paint ⦠Than to Describeâ: Chaos in Michel de Marollesâs Tableaux du Temple des Muses
âJames Clifton
4 The Edge of Ekphrasis: Bellori and Reproductive Printmaking
âAnnie Maloney
Part 2: Poem, Image, Ekphrasis
5 Mythography as Ekphrasis: Ludovico Lazzarelliâs De gentilium deorum imaginibus, and the Poetics of Humanism
âKarl Enenkel
6 Antithesis, Ekphrasis, and Antiphrasis in Joachim du Bellayâs Ruinscape, Les Antiquités de Rome
âArthur J. DiFuria
7 Through a Poetâs Eyes: Jan van der Nootâs Poem on the Capital Sins
âCaecilie Weissert
âWith a translation of the poem by Anna Dlabacova
8 Virtual Reality of the Early Modern Anatomical Poem in Denmark and England
âIvana BiÄak
Part 3: Sacred Ekphrasis
9 Robert Campin and Jan van Ruusbroec: Spiritual Conflagrations and Ekphrastic Mysticism
âElliott D. Wise
10 Transfiguring Raphael, Reforming Christ: Ekphrastic Image-Making in Nicolas Poussinâs The Miracle of St. Francis Xavier
âSteffen Zierholz
11 Levels to Ekphrasis in the Tableaux de la Pénitence
âLars Cyril Nørgaard
Part 4: Ekphrastic Images
12 Art between Fact and Fantasy: Tracing the Afterlife of Ekphrastic Architecture in Renaissance Italy
âFemke Speelberg
13 Ekphrasis and Ovidian Poetics in Hendrick Goltziusâs Landscape with Venus and Adonis of ca. 1598
âWalter S. Melion
14 Rembrandtâs Judas Returning the Silver of 1629: Visual and Literary Associations
âAmy Golahny
15 âBy This Blood Most Chaste [â¦]â (Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1.59): Passion and Politics in Rembrandtâs Lucretia of 1666
âShelley Perlove
16 Finding, Stealing, Translating: The Subject(s) of Tintorettoâs Brera Scuola Grande di San Marco Istoria
âLetha C. Châien
Part 5: Nature, Art, Ekphrasis
17 Reveries of the Source
âChristopher P. Heuer
18 Ekphrasis and the Romance of Botany in the Age of Pietro Andrea Mattioli
âApril Oettinger
part 6: Global Ekphrasis
19 Seeing âde flandesâ
âStephanie Porras
20 âEscribieron en mi memoriaâ: Ekphrasis in the Pastoral Fiction of New Spain
âTeresa Clifton
21 Ekphrasis and the Global Eighteenth Century: A.E. van Braam Houckgeestâs Collection of Chinese Art
âDawn Odell
Index Nominum
Scholars of the literary and visual arts, of rhetoric, and of pedagogy, as well as scholars interested in the relation between word and image. Keywords: ekphrasis, description, mimesis, affect, rhetorical figure, analogy, prosopopoeia, personification, paragone, disputation, ut pictura poesis.