Quid est sacramentum? : visual representation of sacred mysteries in early modern Europe, 1400-1700
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- ISBN: 9789004408944
- ISBN: 9004408940
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1 online resource
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access - Publisher: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Quid est sacramentum?: Introduction / Walter S. Melion -- Representing the Sacraments -- Counterfeiting the Eucharist in Late Medieval Life and Art / Aden Kumler -- Vestments in the Mass / Lee Palmer Wandel -- 'In the Flesh a Mirror of Spiritual Blessings': Calvin's Defence of the Lord's Supper as a Visual Accommodation / AnnMarie M. Bridges -- 'Mystery' or 'Sacrament': Ephesians 5:32, the Sacrament of Marriage in Early Modern Biblical Scholarship, and Nicolas Poussin's Visual Exegesis / Wim François -- Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque Bavaria / Noria K. Litaker -- Staging Sacramental Consolation in Vienna / Robert L. Kendrick -- Sacramental Modes of Representation -- Seeing beyond Signs: Allegorical Explanations of the Mass in Medieval Dutch Literature / Anna Dlabačová -- Representing Architecture in the Altarpiece: Fictions, Strategies, and Mysteries / Elizabeth Carson Pastan -- Orchestrating Polyphony at the Altar: Passion Altarpieces in Late Medieval France / Donna L. Sadler -- God's Design: Painting and Piety in the Vida of Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597-1665) / Tanya J. Tiffany -- Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: the Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges / Elliott D. Wise and Matthew Havili -- Anchoring the Appearance of the Sacred: the Abbot of Choisy & His Translation of the Imitatio Christi (1692) / Lars Cyril Nørgaard -- Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci's Christ and Mary Magdalene / Bronwen Wilson -- Representing Divine Presence and the Mysteries of Faith -- The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le Roi Tradition / Alexa Sand -- Christ Child Creator / David S. Areford -- Lady Scripture's Sacred Commitments: Dialogic Understanding in Dutch Religious Literature of the Late Fifteenth Century / Geert Warnar -- Coemeterium Schola: the Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David, S.J.'s Veridicus Christianus / Walter S. Melion -- The Limits of 'Mute Theology': Charles Le Brun's Lecture on Nicolas Poussin's Ecstasy of Saint Paul Revisited / James Clifton -- A Private Mystery: Looking at Philippe de Champaigne's Annunciation for the Hôtel de Chavigny / Mette Birkedal Bruun -- Back Matter -- Index Nominum. |
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Subject: | Art and society -- Europe -- History Christian art and symbolism -- Europe Sacraments in art |
Genre: | Electronic books. History. |