Table of 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 InterpretationII. 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 PfinzingClades 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 ThousandVisual 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.