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In bringing together work on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume offers a sense of the richness and the complexity of early modern thinking about the human eye. The seven case studies explore the relationship between vision and knowledge, taking up such diverse artifacts as an emblem book, a Jesuit mariological text, Calvin’s Institutes, Las Casas’s Apologia, Hans Staden’s True History, the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, and an exegetical painting by Herri met de Bles. Argued from different disciplinary perspectives, these essays pose crucial questions about the eyes, asking how they were construed as instruments of witnessing, perception, representation, cognition, and religious belief.
Contributors include: Tom Conley, Walter Melion, José Rabasa, Lee Palmer Wandel, Michel Weemans, Nicolás Wey Gómez, and Neil Whitehead.
Contributors include: Tom Conley, Walter Melion, José Rabasa, Lee Palmer Wandel, Michel Weemans, Nicolás Wey Gómez, and Neil Whitehead.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Intersections
Publication Date:
07 December 2009
ISBN: 9789004179745
Format: Hardcover
‘’An important contribution to our knowledge of the dynamic an intersection between representation, visual cognition, and witnessing, including the plurality of ‘’early modern eyes’’, and the variety of ways in which knowledge and vision were interrelated’’
Eleonora Canepari, French National Center for Scientific Research. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2011, p. 1137.
Eleonora Canepari, French National Center for Scientific Research. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2011, p. 1137.
Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988) in Art History, University of California, Berkeley, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries. His books include Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander's "Schilder-Boeck" (University of Chicago, 1991) and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print (Saint Joseph's University, 2009).
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.d. (1985) in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her books include Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich (Cambridge University, 1990), Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (Cambridge University, 1994), and The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge University, 2006).
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.d. (1985) in History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Visual Culture, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her books include Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich (Cambridge University, 1990), Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel (Cambridge University, 1994), and The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy (Cambridge University, 2006).