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Author : Ralph Dekoninck
Release : 2020-09-10
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 264/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quid est secretum? by : Ralph Dekoninck
Download or read book Quid est secretum? written by Ralph Dekoninck. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Author : Walter Melion
Release : 2019-10-07
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 940/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Quid est sacramentum? by : Walter Melion
Download or read book Quid est sacramentum? written by Walter Melion. This book was released on 2019-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.
Author : Stijn Bussels
Release : 2024-01-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 643/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700) by : Stijn Bussels
Download or read book Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature (1400–1700) written by Stijn Bussels. This book was released on 2024-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Annett Martini
Release : 2010
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 350/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis ספר הנקוד לר' יוסף ג'יקטיליה by : Annett Martini
Download or read book ספר הנקוד לר' יוסף ג'יקטיליה written by Annett Martini. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rolando Ferri
Release : 2003-12-18
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Octavia by : Rolando Ferri
Download or read book Octavia written by Rolando Ferri. This book was released on 2003-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book is a full-length study of Octauia, the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject, or fabula praetexta. The play deals with Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia, Claudius' daughter by Valeria Messalina, and with his subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. Professor Ferri presents a critical edition of the text based on a fresh re-examination of the relevant manuscripts and provides a full discussion of textual issues. In the Introduction he argues that the play, wrongly ascribed to Seneca in our MSS, was composed in the late Flavian period, and that the author relied on pre-existing historical accounts written after the death of Nero. He also discusses in detail the style and language of the play, strongly influenced by Senecan tragedy, its relationship to the other plays of the Senecan corpus, and particularly to Hercules Oetaeus, its stagecraft and post-Classical dramatic conventions, and the author's political position.
