Ut pictura meditatio: the meditative image in northern art, 1500-1700

Contents

Introduction: Meditating on pictures -- Meditative images and the portrayal of image-based meditation / Walter S. Melion -- Et oculi mei conspecturi sunt: Interdiegetic gaze and the meditative image / Brennan Breed -- 'Diplopia': Seeing Hieronymus Bosch's St Jerome in the Wilderness double / Reindert Falkenburg -- From mystical garden to gospel harmony: Willem van Branteghem on the soul's conformation to Christ / Walter S. Melion -- Before the preludes: Some semiotic observations on vision, meditation, and the 'fifth space' in early Jesuit spiritual illustrated literature / Andrea Catellani -- The mental image in representation: Jean Aumont, L'Ouverture intérieure de royaume de l'Agneau occis dans nos cœurs (1660) / Frédéric Cousinié -- Process and metamorphosis of the image: Ambivalences of the anagogic movement in Dionysian contemplation / Christian Belin -- Type and counter-type: the ocular and the imaginary in Erasmus / Jacob Vance -- Decapitation and the paradox of the meditative image: Andrea Solario (1507) and the transformation and the transition of the Johannesschüssel from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / Barbara Baert -- Ad vivum: Pictorial and spiritual imitation in the allegory of the Pictura sacra by Frans Francken II / Ralph Dekoninck -- An apprenticeship in 'spiritual painting': Richeome's La Peinture spirituelle / Judi Loach -- Cutting and pasting at Little Gidding: Bible illustration and Protestant belief in seventeenth-century England / Michael Gaudio -- Ecstasy and the cosmopolitan soul / Richard Rambuss -- An idolatry of the letter: time, devotion, and Siam in the almanacs of the Sun King / Rebecca Zorach.