Quid Est Secretum? : Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700.

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.

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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