The Riddle of Jael ：The History of a Poxied Heroine in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Culture ( Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History )

Publication subTitle ：The History of a Poxied Heroine in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Culture

Publication series ： Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Author： Brown P. Scott  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2018

E-ISBN: 9789004364660

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004364387

Subject： J110.93 Middle Ages (467 ~ 1640)

Keyword： 世界各国艺术概况

Language： ENG

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Description

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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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

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