Reading images from the past: in honour of Karl A. E. Enenkel

Abstract

"Reading Images from the Past is conceived as a Festschrift for Karl Enenkel. The contributors include art historians, literary scholars, and historians, and the topics cover a wide range of periods, countries, and cultural contexts. They explore the complex relation between word and image, consier the rhetorical and hermaneutic functions of various types of image-making, and examine theories and practices of knowledge production across diverse media. They also reflect on the multi-faceted uses of the past in early modern European culture within debates on art, antiquarian studies, book culture, literature, and historiography. Throughout the volume, special attention is paid to the interaction amongst visual and textual forms and materials." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction / Arjan van Dijk -- Part 1. Meditation, prayer, and spiritual exercises -- 1. Karel van Mander on the nativity as an epitome of deucht, liefde, and const / Walter S. Melion -- 2. Vele schoone beelden die noyt ghesien en waren : new pictorial and meditative layers in Thielman Kerver's 1522 Dutch-language Book of Hours / Anna Dlabačová -- 3. Seeing is believing : word and image in Jacopo Sannazaro's De partu Virginis / David Rijser -- 4. "Contrition, prayer, repentance: what of them?" Ineffective remorse in Marlowe and Shakespeare / Jan van Dijkhuizen -- 5. Visions of Joseph : theatre performance, literature and the art of painting in seventeenth-century Amsterdam / Frans R.E. Blom -- Part 2. Reading architecture and material heritage -- 6. The writing on the wall : visiting the Sala degli Imperatori in Foligno with Francesco Da Fiano as literary guide / Susanna de Beer -- 7. The painted decoration of the Sala Regia in the Vatican palace : changing circumstances, different times, shifting appreciation / Jan L. de Jong -- 8. A Flemish antiquarian in Baroque Rome : Justus Rycquius and his monograph on the ancient Roman capitol / March Laureys -- 9. Jolly readings of equivocal antique material heritage in early modern Rome and Naples / Harald Hendrix -- 10. How to read a fountain? Pietro Francavilla's sculpture in Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa / Stijn Bussels -- 11. The Renaissance of the caliphs : Roman columns and the canon of ancient architecture in the early modern Morocco / Konrad Ottenheym -- Part 3. Teaching with images and emblems -- 12. How to read an image from the past? Philipp Melanchthon's school commentary on Georgicas 3.440-566 / Coen Maas -- 13. Teaching in emblems, teaching with emblems : figurations of learning in Neo-Latin emblem books / Christian Peters -- 14. The labyrinth of politics : the evolution of Justus Reifenberg's Emblemata politica (1620; 1632) / Lukas Reddemann -- Part 4. Literary and artistic trajectories -- 15. Cicero avant les lettres : descriptions of his life in the early fourteenth century (Giovanni Colonna's De viris illustribus and the anonymous Vita Trecensis) / Christoph Pieper -- 16. Facetiae and satire : the exemplary case of Friedrich Dedekind's Grobianus / Bernd Renner -- 17. Imitation and emulation : Rubens and Junius / Colette Nativel -- 18. The packaging and consumption of literary exclusivity in Richard Tottel's Songes and sonettes / John J. Thompson -- Part 5. Re-reading mythology -- 19. The typographical nymph : Io, inscriptions, and Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury / Anita Traninger -- 20. Lectures on love stories in Der minnen loep : Dirc Potter, Ovid and exemplary narrative in Leiden, University Library, Ltk 205 / Geert Warnar -- 21. Isis Suevorum : Johann Gottlob Böhme (1717-1780) and an Egyptian cult in Germania / Bernd Roling -- 22. Hercules against Hydra in the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg : on method and resilience / Barbara Baert -- Part 6. Interpreting the natural world -- 23. An enigmatic painting : A young woman mourning three dead birds by Jacques de Gheyn II / Paul J. Smith -- 24. Roelant Savery's alpine marvels of nature - lusus naturae versus lusus artis / Reindert L. Falkenburg -- 25. Imagining septentrional etymology : a first theorisation of the role of experience in early modern philology on words of the north European past / Sophie van Romburgh -- Part 7. Challenging authority -- 26. Forging an authority : sacred art and idolatry in the reception of Gregory the Great / Wietse de Boer -- 27. Wordplay and swordplay : Camillo Agrippa's challenge of philosophy from the spirit of fencing / Claus Zittel -- 28. Greek ur-pictures of law, legislation and jurisdiction by Nikolaus Glockendon in Gregor Haloander's edition of Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis / Cornel Zwierlein -- 29. Saturn's mouth, the antiquarian's eye, and the draughtsman's hand : curiosity in the circle of Sebastian Faesch / Christine Göttler -- 30. Academic poetics and heroic poetry in Königsberg : Balthaser Boy's Dissertatio poetica de requisitis quibusdam epici carminis circa objectum ejus (1691) / Robert Seidel -- 31. "Une lumière que écarte les nuages" : bibliometric perspectives on Lucretius's eighteenth-century modernity / Alicia C. Montoya.