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Ut Pictura Amor : The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Intersections SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (812 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004346468
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ut Pictura AmorLOC classification:
  • N8220 .U8 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice -- Part 1 Vision, Imagination, and Erotic Desire -- Chapter 1 Figments of the Imagination: Medical and Moral Discourses on Love in the Counter-Reformation -- Chapter 2 The Gods of Water-Baths, Country Houses, and Their Decoration in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flanders -- Chapter 3 Hishikawa Moronobu and the Imprinting of 'Love' in Early Modern Japan -- Chapter 4 Chinese 'Paintings of Beautiful Women' and Images of Asia in a Jesuit Text -- Part 2 Metamorphic Imagery of Love -- Chapter 5 Enacting the Erotic Body: Pictorial and Spectatorial Evocations of Corporeality among Jan Gossaert and His Patrons -- Chapter 6 The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius's Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1593), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597) -- Part 3 Optics, Aesthetics, and the Visual Poetics of Desire -- Chapter 7 Between the Human and the Divine: The Majālis al-ushshāq and the Materiality of Love in Early Safavid Art -- Chapter 8 The Painting Looks Back: Reciprocal Desire in the Seventeenth Century -- Part 4 Amorous Desire, Domestic Virtue, and Love's Mirror -- Chapter 9 Agape, Caritas, and Conjugal Love in Paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck -- Chapter 10 Vermeer's Milkmaid in the Discourse of Love -- Chapter 11 The Mirror as Rival: Metsu, Mimesis, and Amor in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting -- Part 5 Portrayals of Spousal Love -- Chapter 12 What's Love Got to Do with It? Unlacing the Love Knots in Margaret of Austria's Royal Monastery at Brou -- Chapter 13 Rubens, Rembrandt, and the Spousal Model/Muse -- Part 6 Youth, Friendship, and Other Inflections of Divine Love.
Chapter 14 The Dynamics of Divine Love: Francis de Sales's Picturing of the Biblical Mystery of the Visitation -- Chapter 15 Intimacy and Longing: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen and the Distance of Love -- Chapter 16 Amor Dei in Emblems for Dutch Youth -- Part 7 Desire, Fellowship, and Marian Mimesis -- Chapter 17 Marten de Vos and the Virgin Mary: Love, Mimesis and Music -- Chapter 18 Bernardo Accolti, Raphael, and the Sistine Madonna: The Poetics of Desire and Pictorial Generation -- Part 8 Picturing Love in the Marketplace -- Chapter 19 "For Love and Money. The Circulation of Value and Desire in Abraham Ortelius's Album amicorum" -- Chapter 20 Frans Francken the Younger's Discovery of Achilles: Desire, Deception, and Inalienable Possession -- Chapter 21 Desire by Candlelight: Body and Coin in Gerrit van Honthorst's Old Woman With Coins -- Index Nominum.
Summary: An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice -- Part 1 Vision, Imagination, and Erotic Desire -- Chapter 1 Figments of the Imagination: Medical and Moral Discourses on Love in the Counter-Reformation -- Chapter 2 The Gods of Water-Baths, Country Houses, and Their Decoration in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flanders -- Chapter 3 Hishikawa Moronobu and the Imprinting of 'Love' in Early Modern Japan -- Chapter 4 Chinese 'Paintings of Beautiful Women' and Images of Asia in a Jesuit Text -- Part 2 Metamorphic Imagery of Love -- Chapter 5 Enacting the Erotic Body: Pictorial and Spectatorial Evocations of Corporeality among Jan Gossaert and His Patrons -- Chapter 6 The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius's Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1593), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597) -- Part 3 Optics, Aesthetics, and the Visual Poetics of Desire -- Chapter 7 Between the Human and the Divine: The Majālis al-ushshāq and the Materiality of Love in Early Safavid Art -- Chapter 8 The Painting Looks Back: Reciprocal Desire in the Seventeenth Century -- Part 4 Amorous Desire, Domestic Virtue, and Love's Mirror -- Chapter 9 Agape, Caritas, and Conjugal Love in Paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck -- Chapter 10 Vermeer's Milkmaid in the Discourse of Love -- Chapter 11 The Mirror as Rival: Metsu, Mimesis, and Amor in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting -- Part 5 Portrayals of Spousal Love -- Chapter 12 What's Love Got to Do with It? Unlacing the Love Knots in Margaret of Austria's Royal Monastery at Brou -- Chapter 13 Rubens, Rembrandt, and the Spousal Model/Muse -- Part 6 Youth, Friendship, and Other Inflections of Divine Love.

Chapter 14 The Dynamics of Divine Love: Francis de Sales's Picturing of the Biblical Mystery of the Visitation -- Chapter 15 Intimacy and Longing: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen and the Distance of Love -- Chapter 16 Amor Dei in Emblems for Dutch Youth -- Part 7 Desire, Fellowship, and Marian Mimesis -- Chapter 17 Marten de Vos and the Virgin Mary: Love, Mimesis and Music -- Chapter 18 Bernardo Accolti, Raphael, and the Sistine Madonna: The Poetics of Desire and Pictorial Generation -- Part 8 Picturing Love in the Marketplace -- Chapter 19 "For Love and Money. The Circulation of Value and Desire in Abraham Ortelius's Album amicorum" -- Chapter 20 Frans Francken the Younger's Discovery of Achilles: Desire, Deception, and Inalienable Possession -- Chapter 21 Desire by Candlelight: Body and Coin in Gerrit van Honthorst's Old Woman With Coins -- Index Nominum.

An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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