Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Visual Exegesis and Pieter Bruegel’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

I. Visual Typologies

Jan van Eyck’s Typology of Spiritual Knighthood in the Van der Paele Madonna

Typology at its Limits: Visual Exegesis and Eschatology in the Sistine Chapel

Typology – Back with a Vengeance! Texts, Images, and Marginal Glosses in Vorsterman’s 1534 Dutch Bible

L’Épitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens. Rhétorique et exégèse visuelle

A New Interpretation of Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith: Vividness and Figural Interpretation

II. Visual Analogy as an Exegetical Instrument

Empathy as a Type of Early Netherlandish Visual Wit

Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert’s Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523

The Preaching of John the Baptist: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis and Expanded Typology

Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen

Becoming Elijah: The Sleep of Elijah by Philippe de Champaigne from the Convent of the Val-de-Grâce

III. Exegetical Imagery of Spiritual Conformation

‘See the Bridegroom Cometh; Go Out and Meet Him’: On Spiritual Progress and Mystical Union in Early Netherlandish Painting

Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion

Helenus and Dorotheus: Marten de Vos and the Desert Fathers

Lectio Divina and Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Interconnection of Divine and Human Hearts

IV. Reading the Bible Through Images

Illumination of Images and Illumination through the Image – Functions and Concepts of Gospel Illustrations in the Bible of the Nuremberg Patrician Martin Pfinzing

Clades Judaeae Gentis: Patterns of Destruction

Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century

Framing Devices and Exegetical Strategies in Northern Illustrated Spiritual Literature

‘The Glory of the Last House’ (Haggai 2:9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai

V. Visual Inflections of Textual Authority

Saints Amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg’s Pre-Reformation Art: A New Exegesis of Dürer’s Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand

Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525–1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandizement

Gideon, an Old Testament Hero in Action: Burgundian Symbolism and the Visual Language of Protestant Flanders

Maerten van Heemskerck’s Heliodorus Driven from the Temple: Translatio and the Interrogative Print

Of Churches, Heretics, and Other Guides of the Blind: The Fall of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Esthetics of Subversion

Bruegel’s Biblical Kings

VI. Emblematic Images and the Discernment of Religious Truth

From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius’ Paintings and Emblems

Exegetical Immersion: The Festivities on the Occasion of Francis de Sales’s Canonisation (1665–1667)

Old Emblems, New Meaning: A Critical Visual Account of the Reformation in De Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica

VII. Prefiguration and Transfiguration

Vasari and The Transfiguration of Christ: Converging the Testaments and Competing with Predecessors

Rubens’s Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death: Unveiling the Glory of God

Index Nominum