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The primacy of the image in northern European art, 1400-1700 : essays in honor of Larry Silver /

The primacy of the image in northern European art, 1400-1700 : essays in honor of Larry Silver / edited by Debra Taylor Cashion, Henry Luttikhuizen, Ashley D. West. - 1 online resource (xxxvii, 593 pages) : illustrations. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 271 0920-8607 ; Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 22 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 271/22. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353381. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Strategies of Intimacy: Memling’s Triptych of Adriaan Reins / Those Who Are Bashful Starve: An Interpretation of the Master of the Brunswick Diptych’s Holy Family at Meal / Hugo van der Goes and Portraiture / The Besieged War-Elephant: A Boschian Moralized Antiwar Discourse / The Overpainted Patron: Some Considerations about Dating Bosch’s Last Judgment Triptych in Vienna / The Red Jew, Red Altarpiece and Jewish Iconography in Jan de Beer’s St. Joseph and the Suitors / “Headlong” into Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Seasons / Better Living Through Misinterpretation / The Last Supper with Donors in the Chrysler Museum Collection / Michiel Coxcie’s Artistic Quotations in The Death of Abel / Veronica’s Textile / It’s February in the Early Fifteenth Century: What’s for Dinner? / Oratio ad Proprium Angelum: The Guardian Angel in the Rothschild Hours / Chinese Painting and Dutch Book Arts: The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Interpretation / Kinesis and Death in Lautensack / Virgil’s Flute: the Art and Science of “Antique Letters” and the Origins of Knowledge / Born to Teach: Nikolaus Glockendon’s Finding of Jesus in the Temple / Nicolaes Witsen’s Collection, his Influence, and the Primacy of the Image / Dürer’s Rhinoceros Underway: the Epistemology of the Copy in the Early Modern Print / Praying against Pox: New Reflections on Dürer’s Jabach Altarpiece / The Weird Sisters of Hans Baldung Grien / Preserving Destruction: Albrecht Altdorfer’s Etchings of the Regensburg Synagogue as Material Performances of the Past and Future / The Case of the Missing Gold Disc: A Crucifixion by Albrecht Dürer / Hitler’s Dürer? The Nuremberg Painter between Self-Portrayal and National Appropriation / Performing Dürer: Staging the Artist in the Nineteenth Century / The Burin, the Blade, and the Paper’s Edge: Early Sixteenth-Century Engraved Scabbard Designs by Monogrammist ac / “Return to Your True Self!” Practicing Spiritual Therapy with the Spiegel der Vernunft in Munich / The Eucharistic Controversy and Daniel Hopfer’s Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament / Recalibrating Witchcraft through Recycling and Collage: The Case of a Late Seventeenth-Century Anonymous Print / The Timeless Space of Maerten van Heemskerck’s Panoramas: Viewing Ruth and Boaz (1550) / Hendrick Goltzius’s Method of Exegetical Allegory in his Scriptural Prints of the 1570s / Narrative, Ornament, and Politics in Maerten van Heemskerck’s Story of Esther (1564) / Disgust and Desire: Responses to Rembrandt’s Nudes / Lynn F. Jacobs -- Henry Luttikhuizen -- Maryan W. Ainsworth -- Yona Pinson -- Erwin Pokorny -- Dan Ewing -- Reindert L. Falkenburg -- Bret Rothstein -- Lloyd DeWitt -- Christopher D. M. Atkins -- Herbert L. Kessler -- Harry Rand -- Dagmar Eichberger -- Dawn Odell -- Christopher P. Heuer -- Andrew Morrall -- Debra Taylor Cashion -- Rebecca P. Brienen -- Stephanie Leitch -- Birgit Ulrike Münch -- Bonnie Noble -- Ashley D. West -- Miya Tokumitsu -- Thomas Schauerte -- Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Brooks Rich -- Mitchell B. Merback -- Freyda Spira -- Charles Zika -- Arthur DiFuria -- Walter S. Melion -- Shelley Perlove -- Stephanie S. Dickey.

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The Primacy of the Image in Northern Art 1400-1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver is an anthology of 42 essays written by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of Northern Europe of the late medieval and early modern periods. Written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, the topics are inspired by Professor Silver’s renowned scholarship in these areas: Early Netherlandish Painting and Prints; Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Painting; Manuscripts, Patrons, and Printed Books; Dürer and the Power of Pictures; Prints and Printmaking; and Seventeenth-Century Painting. Studies of specific artists include Hans Memling, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick Goltzius, and Rembrandt.

9789004354128

10.1163/9789004354128 DOI

2017029636


Art, Northern European--Themes, motives.--15th century
Art, Northern European--Themes, motives.--16th century
Art, Northern European--Themes, motives.--17th century

N6750 / .P75 2017

709.48/09024