Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Stijn P.M. Bussels , Karl A.E. Enenkel , Michel Weemans , and Elliott D. Wise -- Chapter 1 Expecting Efficacy / John Decker -- Chapter 2 Deus ex machina - Remarks on Early-Netherlandish Art of Devotion / Reindert L. Falkenburg -- Chapter 3 Mediating the Holy: A Living Saint and the Status of the Image in Pre-Modern Augsburg / Ashley D. West -- Chapter 4 Panis Angelicus: The Christ Child among Angels in Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Art / Larry Silver -- Chapter 5 Private Devotion within the Imperial Network / Dagmar Eichberger -- Chapter 6 The Stained Glass Windows of the Great Cloister of the Leuven Charterhouse: Between Memoria and Spiritual Edification? / Ingrid Falque -- Chapter 7 Catechizing the Cross / Lee Palmer Wandel -- Chapter 8 Temple Priests and Pharisees on Calvary: Anti-Judaism and Humanism in Maarten van Heemskerck's Crucifixion (c.1549) / Shelley Perlove -- Chapter 9 Rubens and the Virgin Mary / Colette Nativel -- Chapter 10 ‘Vulnera Christi Medicina animarum': The Pentalpha and the Five Wounds in Willem de Wael a Vronesteyn's Corona sacratissimorum Iesu Christi vulnerum (1649) / James Clifton -- Chapter 11 God's Kiss to Humanity: Seeing the Incarnation through the Eyes of Francis de Sales / Joseph F. Chorpenning -- Chapter 12 Exemplum: Model Books, Memory, and Traces of Marian Devotion Circa 1400 / C. Jean Campbell -- Chapter 13 Silver and Gold I Do Not Have: Lambert Suavius's Saint Peter Healing the Paralytic Man (1553) and the Poor Beauty of Engraving / Edward H. Wouk -- Chapter 14 All Cretans Lie: Pieter Bruegel's ‘Misanthrope' in a New Interpretation / Jürgen Müller -- Chapter 15 Image and Honour: Nicholas Sander and the Council of Trent / Wietse de Boer -- Chapter 16 Go from Fiction to the Truth!: Mennonitism and Humanism in Van Mander's Theory of Painting / Boudewijn Bakker -- Chapter 17 Homo in Imagine [Impressa] Ambulat , The Proof of the (Engraved) Image / Ralph Dekoninck -- Chapter 18 The Problem of Ultraviolence in Modern Martyrology Narratives and Images, a Research Proposal / Pierre-Antoine Fabre -- Chapter 19 Quentin Massys's Deceptions in Plain Sight / Bret L. Rothstein -- Chapter 20 Animal Fables of Contemplation / Paul J. Smith -- Chapter 21 Self-reflection in a Troubled Age: Gillis Anselmo's album amicorum and an Astrolabe Made by Michiel Coignet / Christine Göttler -- Chapter 22 ‘As Did Bruegel': David Vinckboons' Agony in the Garden as Proleptic Sacred Landscape / Art DiFuria -- Chapter 23 Notes on Galileo's Moon / Barbara Baert -- Chapter 24 Hermeneutics and Allegory in Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin's Les Délices de l'esprit (1658): from Visual to Figural Exegesis / Agnès Guiderdoni.

This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: "Devotion," "Art and Image Theory," and "Vision and Contemplation." The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists' reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the ‘early modern eye' as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.

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