The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography

NOTE EDITORE

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened.This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.

SOMMARIO

List of Figures and PlatesPrefaceBiographical Notes on the ContributorsMedieval Iconography, An IntroductionColum Hourihane Part I THE GREAT ICONOGRAPHERS 1. Andrea AlciatoDenis L. Drysdall and Peter M. Daly 2. Ripa, the TrincianteCornelia Logemann3. Adolphe-Napoléon Didron (Paris 1867–Hautvilliers 1906)Emilie Maraszak 4. Louis RéauDaniel Russo 5. Émile MâleKirk Ambrose 6. Aby M. Warburg: Iconographer?Peter van Huisstede 7. Fritz Saxl: Transformation and Reconfiguration of Pagan Gods in Medieval ArtKatia Mazzucco 8. Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968)Dieter Wuttke 9. Charles Rufus Morey and the Index of Christian ArtColum Hourihane10. Hans van de Waal, A Portrait Edward Grasman 11. Meyer Schapiro as IconographerPatricia Stirnemann 12. Michael Camille’s Queer Middle AgesMatthew M. ReevePartII SYSTEMS AND CATALOGUING TOOLS 13. The Anthropology of ImagesRalph Dekoninck 14. Classifying Image Content in Visual Collections: A Selective HistoryChiara Franceschini 15. Library of Congress Subject HeadingsSherman Clarke 16. Iconclass: a Key to Collaboration in the Digital HumanitiesHans Brandhorst and Etienne PosthumusSectionIII THEMES IN MEDIEVAL ART 17. Religious Iconography Marina Vicelja 18. Liturgical IconographyKarl F. Morrison 19. Secular Iconography Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck 20. Erotic IconographyMadeline H. Caviness 21. The Iconography of NarrativeAnne F. Harris 22. Political Iconography and The Emblematic Way of SeeingGyörgy E. Szönyi 23. Picturing the Stars – Scientific Iconography in the Middle AgesDieter Blume 24. Medicine’s Image Jack Hartnell 25. Patronage: A Useful Category of Art Historical AnalysisElizabeth Carson Pastan 26. Royal and Imperial IconographyJoan A. Holladay 27. The Iconography of ArchitectureElizabeth Valdez del Álamo 28. Heraldic Imagery, Definition, and PrinciplesLaurent Hablot 29. Medieval Maps and DiagramsDiarmuid Scully30. The Iconography of Gender Sherry C.M. Lindquist 31. Feminist Art History and Medieval IconographyMartha Easton 32. The Iconography of ColorAndreas Petzold 33. Flowers and Plants, the Living Iconography Celia Fisher 34. The Iconography of LightSharon E. J. Gerstel and Michael W. Cothren 35. The Visual Representation of Music and Sound Susan Boynton 36. The Other in the Middle Ages, Difference, Identity, and Iconography Pamela A. Patton 37. Animal IconographyDebra Higgs Strickland 38. Monstrous IconographyAsa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim

AUTORE

Colum Hourihane received his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1983 for a thesis on the iconography of Gothic art in Ireland, part of which was subsequently published as Gothic Art in Ireland 1169–1550: Enduring Vitality (2003). He was deputy director of the Witt Computer Index in the Courtauld Institute until 1997 before becoming director of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, where he was until retirement in 2014. He has edited over twenty volumes of art historical studies and has single-authored five volumes. Among the latter are The Processional Cross in Late Medieval England: The Dallye Cross (2005) and Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in medieval Art (2009). A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Irish Academy in 2015.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781472459473
• Collana: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
• Dimensioni: 9.75 x 6.75 in Ø 2.90 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 148 b/w images, 8 color images, 148 halftones and 8 color halftones
• Pagine Arabe: 548
• Pagine Romane: xxxii