Imago exegetica
Subtitle: visual images as exegetical instruments, 1400-1700
By: edited by Walter S. Melion, James Clifton, and Michel Weemans
Contributors: Melion, Walter S., editor; Clifton, James, 1958- editor; Weemans, Michel, editor
Series: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture -- volume 33
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 9789004262003; 9789004262010
Subjects: Hermeneutics; Criticism, interpretation; Illustrations; Christian art and symbolism; Visual communication; History; Theology; Religious life and customs; Intellectual life; Bible
Description: This volume of 'Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture', consists of essays that pose fundamental questions about the relation between verbal and visual hermeneutics, especially as relates to biblical culture. Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, was neither solely textual nor aniconic; on the contrary, following from Scripture itself, which is replete with verbal images and rhetorical figures, exegesis has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. In turn, visual exegesis, since it concerns the most authoritative of texts, supplied a template for the interpretation of other kinds of significant text by means of images. Seen in this light, exegetical images prove crucial to understanding how meaning was constituted visually, not only in the sacred sphere but also in the secular.00.
Notes: "Emory University, Lovis Corinth Colloquium IV."

Includes bibliographical references and index.