Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction: The Hermeneutic and Exegetical Potential of Landscapes -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700 -- Chapter 2 Parabolic, Periphrastic, and Emblematic Ekphrasis in Hans Bol's Emblemata Evangelica of 1585 -- Part 2 Constructions of Identity: Landscapes and the Description of Reality -- Chapter 3 Landscape Description and the Hermeneutics of Neo-Latin Autobiography: The Case of Jacopo Sannazaro -- Chapter 4 Landscape in Marcus Gheeraerts's Fable Illustrations -- Chapter 5 Order or Variety? Pieter Bruegel and the Aesthetics of Landscape -- Chapter 6 Schilderachtig: A Rhyparographic View of Early 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting -- Chapter 7 Landscape with Landmark: Jacob van Ruisdael's Panorama of Amsterdam (1665-1670) -- Chapter 8 Jacob van Ruisdael's The Jewish Cemetery, c. 1654-1655: Religious Toleration, Dutch Identity, and Divine Time -- Chapter 9 'Car la terre ici n'est telle qu'un fol l'estime': Landscape Description as an Interpretative Tool in Two Early Modern Poems on New France -- Part 3 Constructions of Artificial Landscapes: Gardens, Villegiatura, Ruins -- Chapter 10 Hermeneutics and the Early Modern Garden: Ingenuity, Sociability, Education -- Chapter 11 The Politics of Space of the Burgundian Garden -- Chapter 12 The Stratigraphy of Poetic Landscape at the Esquiline Villa -- Chapter 13 Poussin's Allegory of Ruins -- Chapter 14 'False Art's Insolent Address': The Enchanted Garden in Early Modern Literature and Landscape Design -- Part 4 Constructions of Imaginary Landscapes -- Chapter 15 Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the Furioso -- Chapter 16 Epic Salvation: Christ's Descent into Hell and the Landscape of the Underworld in Neo-Latin Christian Epic.

Chapter 17 World Landscape as Visual Exegesis: Herri met de Bles's Penitent Saint Jerome -- Chapter 18 Cities of the Dead: Utopian Spaces, the Grotesque, and the Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France -- Index Nominum.

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

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