Quid est sacramentum? : visual representation of sacred mysteries in early modern Europe, 1400-1700 /

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.

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'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, med...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Melion, Walter S. (Editor), Pastan, Elizabeth Carson, 1955- (Editor), Wandel, Lee Palmer (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.
Series:Intersections ; v. 65/1.
Subjects:
Sacraments in art.
Christian art and symbolism > Europe.
Art and society > Europe > History.
Art and society.
Christian art and symbolism.
Europe.
History.
Table of 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.

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