The Riddle of Jael : The History of a Poxied Heroine in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Riddle of Jael -- Chapter 1 Jael under Erasure -- Chapter 2 Jael in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Thought -- Part 2 Transformations of Jael (1400-1550) -- Chapter 3 Jan van Eyck and the Early Modern Re-imagination of Jael -- Chapter 4 Albrecht Altdorfer's Jael, the Power of Women, and Syphilis in Sixteenth-Century Print -- Chapter 5 Lambert Lombard's Jael, Poxied Penitents, and Northern Humanism -- Part 3 Jael among the Haarlem Humanists (1550-1600) -- Chapter 6 Maarten van Heemskerck and Dirck Coornhert's Power of Women: A Pasquinade on the Perfectibility of the Imperfect Soul -- Chapter 7 Maarten van Heemskerck and Hendrick Goltzius on Jael's Nail and the Artist's Hand -- Chapter 8 Philips Galle and Hadrianus Junius' Jael: A Biblical Circe and Her Eloquent Riddle -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first history of the Biblical heroine Jael (Judges 4), a blessed murderess and fertile moral paradox in medieval and Renaissance art.

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