Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term 'reflexive' is here used to refer to images that invite reflection not only on their form, function, and meaning, but also on their genesis and mode of production. Early modern artists often fashioned reflexive images and effigies of this kind, that appraise love by exploring the lineaments of the pictorial or sculptural image, and complementarily, appraise the pictorial or sculptural image by exploring the nature of love. Hence the book's epigraph--ut pictura amor--'as is a picture, so is love'.
Author(s): Walter Melion, Michael Zell, Joanna Woodall
Series: Intersections, 48
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 900
City: Leiden
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice
Part 1 Vision, Imagination, and Erotic Desire
Chapter 1 Figments of the Imagination: Medical and Moral Discourses on Love in the Counter-Reformation
Chapter 2 The Gods of Water—Baths, Country Houses, and Their Decoration in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flanders
Chapter 3 Hishikawa Moronobu and the Imprinting of ‘Love’ in Early Modern Japan
Chapter 4 Chinese ‘Paintings of Beautiful Women’ and Images of Asia in a Jesuit Text
Part 2 Metamorphic Imagery of Love
Chapter 5 Enacting the Erotic Body: Pictorial and Spectatorial Evocations of Corporeality among Jan Gossaert and His Patrons
Chapter 6 The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius’s Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1593), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597)
Part 3 Optics, Aesthetics, and the Visual Poetics of Desire
Chapter 7 Between the Human and the Divine: The Majālis al-ushshāq and the Materiality of Love in Early Safavid Art
Chapter 8 The Painting Looks Back: Reciprocal Desire in the Seventeenth Century
Part 4 Amorous Desire, Domestic Virtue, and Love’s Mirror
Chapter 9 Agape, Caritas, and Conjugal Love in Paintings by Rembrandt and Van Dyck
Chapter 10 Vermeer’s Milkmaid in the Discourse of Love
Chapter 11 The Mirror as Rival: Metsu, Mimesis, and Amor in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
Part 5 Portrayals of Spousal Love
Chapter 12 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Unlacing the Love Knots in Margaret of Austria’s Royal Monastery at Brou
Chapter 13 Rubens, Rembrandt, and the Spousal Model/Muse
Part 6 Youth, Friendship, and Other Inflections of Divine Love
Chapter 14 The Dynamics of Divine Love: Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Biblical Mystery of the Visitation
Chapter 15 Intimacy and Longing: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen and the Distance of Love
Chapter 16 Amor Dei in Emblems for Dutch Youth
Part 7 Desire, Fellowship, and Marian Mimesis
Chapter 17 Marten de Vos and the Virgin Mary: Love, Mimesis and Music
Chapter 18 Bernardo Accolti, Raphael, and the Sistine Madonna: The Poetics of Desire and Pictorial Generation
Part 8 Picturing Love in the Marketplace
Chapter 19 “For Love and Money. The Circulation of Value and Desire in Abraham Ortelius’s Album amicorum”
Chapter 20 Frans Francken the Younger’s Discovery of Achilles: Desire, Deception, and Inalienable Possession
Chapter 21 Desire by Candlelight: Body and Coin in Gerrit van Honthorst’s Old Woman With Coins
Index Nominum
