Quid est sacramentum? : visual representation of sacred mysteries in early modern Europe, 1400-1700 / edited by Walter S. Melion, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Lee Palmer Wandel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melion, Walter S., editor.

Pastan, Elizabeth Carson, 1955- editor.

Wandel, Lee Palmer, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 65/1-2020.

Intersections ; interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; Volume 65/1-2020

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacraments in art.

Christian art and symbolism--Europe.

Christian art and symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria ) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-40894-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004408944 DOI