author: walter melion

Jesuit Image Theory

... images of the stigmata exemplify a way of reading the sacrificial body of Christ.23 Meditating on these mysterious holes, Tesauro tries to extract from them a memorable and persuasive speech. At the beginning of his panegyric, he makes ...

Quid est secretum?: Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700

... meditation. The first part of the meditation begins with a variety of doubts expressed by the reader-soul in the ... speech). According to Aristotle, persuasive speech is supposed to evoke such emotions as indignation, outrage ...

The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

... commandment', printed in Martin Luther, Deudsch Catechismus. Gemehret mit einer newen unterricht vnd vermanung zu der Beicht (Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1529), 11,2 × 7,4 cm, listed in the 'Katalog der Wolfenbütteler Luther-Drucke 1513 bis ...

The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700

... 72 Names of Jesus' and the '72 Names of Mary', as well as prayers listing the singular names of saints, the names of the personages of the trinity, the words listed on the INRI titulus, prayers to the names of Jesus, Mary, the IHS ...

Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700

... Eight Beatitudes (before 1604). Engraving, 65 × 49 mm. Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique ............... 562 9. Antoon II Wierix, Blessed are the Pure in Heart, for They Will See God, from The Eight Beatitudes (before 1604) ...

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