Quid est secretum? : visual representation of secrets in early modern europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Ralph Dekoninck, Agnes Guiderdoni, Walter S Melion.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Guiderdoni, Agnes, 1966- editor.

Melion, Walter S., editor.

Dekoninck, Ralph, editor.

Conference Name:

Lovis Corinth Colloquium (8th : 2018 : Emory University), author.

Series:

Intersections ; 65/2.

Intersections ; 65/2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolism in art--Congresses.

Symbolism in art.

Knowledge, Theory of--History--Europe--Congresses.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : BRILL, [2020]

Summary:

Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge.

Contents:

What did they see? : science and religion in the anatomical theatres of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Peter G.F. Eversmann

Roger de Piles and the secret of grace / Caecilie Weissert

Secret est à louer : secrets and secrecy in French Baroque cartography, 1580-1640 / Tom Conley.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-43226-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004432260 DOI