TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dekoninck,Ralph
AU  - Guiderdoni,Agnès
AU  - Melion,Walter
TI  - Quid Est Secretum?: Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
T2  - Intersections Series
SN  - 9789004432260
AV  - N7740 .D456 2020 
U1  - 704.946 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Symbolism in art-Congresses
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of-History-Europe-Congresses
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Illustrations -- Introduction: What's in a Secret? -- Part 1 The Spiritual locus of Secret -- Chapter 1 In the Secrecy of the Cell: Late Medieval Carthusian Devotional Imagery and Meditative Practices in the Low Countries -- Chapter 2 Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Soul in Manuscript MPM R 35 Vita S. Ioseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi of ca. 1600 -- Chapter 3 Symbols and (Un)concealed Marian Mysteries in the First Litany of Loreto Illustrated with Emblems: Peter Stoergler's Asma Poeticum (Linz, 1636) -- Chapter 4 'Teach Me, Reveal the Secret to My Heart': the Role of a Spiritual Guide in the Meditative Works of Marcin Hińcza -- Part 2 Science and Secrecy -- Chapter 5 Of Grids and Divine Mystery: Gerard Mercator's Revelation -- Chapter 6 What Did They See?: Science and Religion in the Anatomical Theatres of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Part 3 The Secret in Matter -- Chapter 7 The Sienese Goldsmith and the Secrets of Florentine Disegno -- Chapter 8 An Open and Shut Case: On the Dialectic of Secrecy and Access in the Early-Modern Kunstkammer -- Chapter 9 Mysterious Noises: Orphic Strings, Rough Music, and the Sounds of Early Modern Ornament Prints -- Chapter 10 'Insettinghe' and 'yegelijcx conversatie': Understanding of the Image on the Eve of Baroque -- Chapter 11 Roger de Piles and the Secret of Grace -- Part 4 Secrecy and Sanctity: Negotiating Secular and Sacred Registers of the Secret -- Chapter 12 In Abscondito: Visuality and Testimony in Raphael's Transfiguration -- Chapter 13 Secrets of the Dark: Rembrandt's Entombment (c. 1654) -- Chapter 14 Poussin and Richeome: Mystery and Figurability -- Chapter 15 Portrait or Parable?: Pierre Mignard and the Mystery of Madame de Maintenon; Part 5 Secrets of the Ars symbolica: Emblems and Enigmas -- Chapter 16 Secret est à louer: Secrets and Secrecy in French Baroque Cartography, 1580-1640 -- Chapter 17 Hidden in Plain Sight: Melchior Lorck's Emblematized Adages -- Chapter 18 To Hide Is to Reveal: the Paradox of Representing Secrets -- Chapter 19 Getting to How-To: Chiromancy, Physiognomy, Metoscopy and Prints in Secrets' Service -- Chapter 20 The Answer Lies in the Eye of the Beholder: the Emblematic Ceiling Program in theTown Hall of Gdańsk -- Chapter 21 Convents, Condottieri, and Compulsive Gamblers: Hands-On Secrets of Lorenzo Spirito's Libro -- Chapter 22 Secrecy and the Understanding of Small Things in Early Modern Italy -- Index Nominum
N2  - This book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it
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