Quid Est Sacramentum? : Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Quid est sacramentum?: Introduction -- Part 1 Representing the Sacraments -- Chapter 2 Counterfeiting the Eucharist in Late Medieval Life and Art -- Chapter 3 Vestments in the Mass -- Chapter 4 'In the Flesh a Mirror of Spiritual Blessings': Calvin's Defence of the Lord's Supper as a Visual Accommodation -- Chapter 5 'Mystery' or 'Sacrament': Ephesians 5:32, the Sacrament of Marriage in Early Modern Biblical Scholarship, and Nicolas Poussin's Visual Exegesis -- Chapter 6 Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque Bavaria -- Chapter 7 Staging Sacramental Consolation in Vienna -- Part 2 Sacramental Modes of Representation -- Chapter 8 Seeing beyond Signs: Allegorical Explanations of the Mass in Medieval Dutch Literature -- Chapter 9 Representing Architecture in the Altarpiece: Fictions, Strategies, and Mysteries -- Chapter 10 Orchestrating Polyphony at the Altar: Passion Altarpieces in Late Medieval France -- Chapter 11 God's Design: Painting and Piety in the Vida of Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597-1665) -- Chapter 12 Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: the Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges -- Chapter 13 Anchoring the Appearance of the Sacred: the Abbot of Choisy &amp -- His Translation of the Imitatio Christi (1692) -- Chapter 14 Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci's Christ and Mary Magdalene -- Part 3 Representing Divine Presence and the Mysteries of Faith -- Chapter 15 The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le Roi Tradition -- Chapter 16 Christ Child Creator -- Chapter 17 Lady Scripture's Sacred Commitments: Dialogic Understanding in Dutch Religious Literature of the Late Fifteenth Century.

Chapter 18 Coemeterium Schola: the Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David, S.J.'s Veridicus Christianus -- Chapter 19 The Limits of 'Mute Theology': Charles Le Brun's Lecture on Nicolas Poussin's Ecstasy of Saint Paul Revisited -- Chapter 20 A Private Mystery: Looking at Philippe de Champaigne's Annunciation for the Hôtel de Chavigny -- Index Nominum.

An investigation into how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700.

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