Visual typology in early modern Europe : continuity and expansion / edited by Dagmar Eichberger & Shelley Perlove.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eichberger, Dagmar, editor.

Perlove, Shelley Karen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Typology (Theology) in art.

Christian art and symbolism--Europe--Modern period, 1500-.

Christian art and symbolism.

Europe.

Physical Description:

371 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v., [2018]

Summary:

This is the first study that examines the varied manifestations of typological thinking in diverse media of the visual arts from the Late Middle Ages through the seventeenth century in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, and France. It counteracts the underlying misconception that typology was in decline or even ceased to exist in the sixteenth century. This volume offers new interpretations that redefine what is meant by typological thinking in the early modern period. Typological thinking informs traditional pre-figurations, as well as more broadly associative interconnections between the Old Testament, classical texts, and even natural history, in relation to the New Testament. Typological thought permeates religious and secular visual culture during the period under consideration and this collection of essays reveals the continuing relevance and expansion of typological patterns for the visual arts, with particular emphasis on innovations in the sixteenth century. In the course of the sixteenth century typology became more complex and flexible, and came under the influence of the writings of Protestant and Catholic reformers, and also derived new secular and political analogies. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What is 'typology'? / Alexander Linke

Para-typological imagery in Hieronymus Bosch's Prado Epiphany / Reindert Falkenburg

Instructing everyone : typology in paintings and prints in Holland in the first half of the sixteenth century / Ilja M. Veldman

In search of salvation : typology in the context of the altarpiece / Dagmar Eichberger

Orpheus, Aeneas, and Hercules in the Cappella Nova of Orvieto Cathedral : a study of classical Christian typology in Renaissance art / Jonathan Kline

Typology gone wild : the Gallery of Stags in the Ducal Palace of Nancy / Alexander Linke

Reformation typology and the interpretive challenge of Law and Grace / Jeanne Nuechterlein

On the existence of 'confessional typology' in Lutheran texts and biblical images / Birgit Ulrike Münch

Typological patterns in the service of the 'true faith' : text, prints, and stained glass windows in early seventeenth-century Paris / Tamara Engert

"For as the days of Noah were..." : typology in Pieter Bruegel's Series of the Months / Bertram Kaschek

Images of King Saul in medieval and sixteenth-century bibles / Charles Zika

Lattanzio Gambara's frescoes in Parma Cathedral : typology, religion, and politics / Shelley Perlove.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-319).

ISBN:

9782503545509

2503545505

OCLC:

1061259908