UT Pictura Amor

The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34645-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 770 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1634 g

Reihe: Intersections

Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term ‘reflexive’ is here used to refer to images that invite reflection not only on their form, function, and meaning, but also on their genesis and mode of production. Early modern artists often fashioned reflexive images and effigies of this kind, that appraise love by exploring the lineaments of the pictorial or sculptural image, and complementarily, appraise the pictorial or sculptural image by exploring the nature of love. Hence the book’s epigraph—ut pictura amor—‘as is a picture, so is love’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melion, Walter

Zell, Michael

Woodall, Joanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice
Walter S. Melion, Joanna Woodall, and Michael Zell

PART I
Vision, Imagination, and Erotic Desire
1 Figments of the Imagination: Medical and Moral Discourses on Love in the Counter-Reformation
Wietse de Boer
2 The Gods of Water – Baths, Country Houses and Their Decoration in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Flanders
Ursula Härting
3 Hishikawa Moronobu and the Imprinting of ‘Love’ in Early Modern Japan
Joshua S. Mostow
4 Chinese ‘Paintings of Beautiful Women’ and Images of Asia in a Jesuit Text
Dawn Odell

PART II
Metamorphic Imagery of Love
1 Enacting the Erotic Body: Pictorial and Spectatorial Evocations of Corporeality Among Jan Gossaert and His Patrons
Haohao Lu
2 The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius’s Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1593), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597)
Walter S. Melion

PART III
Optics, Aesthetics, and the Visual Poetics of Desire
1 Between the Human and the Divine: The Majalis al-ushshaq and the Materiality of Love in Early Safavid Art
Kishwar Rizvi
2 The Painting Looks Back: Reciprocal Desire in the Seventeenth Century
Thijs Weststeijn

PART IV
Amorous Desire, Domestic Virtue, and Love’s Mirror
1 Agape, Caritas, and Conjugal Love in Paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck
Stephanie S. Dickey
2 Vermeer’s Milkmaid in the Discourse of Love
H. Rodney Nevitt, Jr.
3 The Mirror as Rival: Metsu, Mimesis, and Amor in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
Michael Zell

PART V
Portrayals of Spousal Love
1 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Unlacing the Love Knots in Margaret of Austria’s Royal Monastery at Brou
Laura D. Gelfand
2 Rubens, Rembrandt and the Spousal Model/Muse
H. Perry Chapman

PART VI
Youth, Friendship, and Other Inflections of Divine Love
1 The Dynamics of Divine Love: Francis De Sales’s Picturing of the Biblical Mystery of the Visitation
Joseph F. Chorpenning
2 Intimacy and Longing: Jacob Cornelisz Van Oostsanen and the Distance of Love
Henry Luttikhuizen
3 Amor Dei in Emblems for Dutch Youth
Els Stronks

PART VII
Desire, Fellowship, and Marian Mimesis
1 Marten de Vos and the Virgin Mary: Love, Mimesis and Music
Margit Thøfner
2 Bernardo Accolti, Raphael, and the Sistine Madonna: The Poetics of Desire and Pictorial Generation
Jonathan Unglaub

PART VIII
Picturing Love in the Marketplace
1 For Love and Money: The Circulation of Value and Desire in Abraham Ortelius’s
Album Amicorum
Joanna Woodall
2 Frans Francken the Younger’s Discovery of Achilles: Desire, Deception, and Inalienable Possession
Lisa Rosenthal
3 Desire by Candlelight: Body and Coin in Gerrit van Honthorst’s Old Woman With Coins
Natasha Seaman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, and Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius.

Joanna Woodall teaches at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She has a longstanding interest portraiture, and hence the relationship between realism and desire. Her publications include studies of the importance of love and friendship to the creation of works of art, and to conceptions of art, in the early modern Netherlands.

Michael Zell is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University. He has published widely on seventeenth-century Dutch artistic culture, with a particular focus on Rembrandt and Vermeer, religious imagery, gift giving, and the poetics of painting.