Image and Incarnation : The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Representing the Mystery of the Incarnation -- Chapter 1 Medietas / Mediator and the Geometry of Incarnation -- Chapter 2 Mute Mysteries of the Divine Logos: On the Pictorial Poetics of Incarnation -- Chapter 3 A Meaty Incarnation: Making Sense of Divine Flesh for Aztec Christians -- Chapter 4 The Ineffability of Incarnation in Le Brun's Silence or Sleep of the Child -- Part 2 Imago Dei and the Incarnate Word -- Chapter 5 Thomas Aquinas, Sacramental Scenes, and the 'Aesthetics' of Incarnation -- Chapter 6 The Poetics of the Image in Late Medieval Mysticism -- Chapter 7 Incarnation, Image, and Sign: John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion &amp -- Late Medieval Visual Culture -- Chapter 8 Eye to Eye, Text to Image? Jan Provoost's Sacred Allegory, Jan van Ruusbroec's Spieghel der eeuwigher salicheit, and Mystical Contemplation in the Late Medieval Low Countries -- Chapter 9 'A Just Proportion of Body and Soul': Emblems and Incarnational Grafting -- Part 3 Literary Figurations of the Incarnation -- Chapter 10 From Negative Painting to Loving Imprint in Pierre de Bérulle's Discours (1623) -- Chapter 11 Discerning Vision: Cognitive Strategies in Cornelis Everaert's Mary Compared to the Light (ca. 1511) -- Chapter 12 The Fountain of Life in Molinet's Roman de la rose moralisé (1500) -- Part 4 Transformative Analogies of Matter and Spirit -- Chapter 13 Figuring the Threshold of Incarnation: Caravaggio's Incarnate Image of the Madonna of Loreto -- Chapter 14 Super-Entanglement: Unfolding Evidence in Hieronymus Bosch's Mass of St. Gregory -- Chapter 15 The Mystery of the Incarnation and the Art of Painting.

Chapter 16 Convent and Cubiculum Cordis: The Incarnational Thematic of Materiality in the Cistercian Prayerbook of Martin Boschman (1610) -- Part 5 Visualizing the Flesh of Christ -- Chapter 17 Dieu le Père en Vierge Marie La Trinité - Pietà de Rubens -- Chapter 18 Images of the Incarnation in the Jesuit Japan Mission's Kirishitanban Story of Virgin Martyr St. Catherine of Alexandria -- Index Nominum.

These essays explore various inflections of the relation between image-making and incarnation doctrine. They illumine ways this fundamental mystery was construed as representable, and how it was seen to license the representation of other mysteries of faith.

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