Includes bibliographical references and index.

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