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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700. The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the description of place in image and/or text, more than merely inviting close viewing, was often seen to call for interpretation or, better, for the application of a method or principle of interpretation. Contributors: Boudewijn Bakker, William M. Barton, Stijn Bussels, Reindert Falkenburg, Margaret Goehring, Andrew Hui, Sarah McPhee, Luke Morgan, Shelley Perlove, Kathleen P. Long, Lukas Reddemann, Denis Ribouillault, Paul J. Smith, Troy Tower, and Michel Weemans.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Part 1: Introduction: The Hermeneutic and Exegetical Potential of Landscapes 1 Introduction: Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700 Walter S. Melion 2 Parabolic, Periphrastic, and Emblematic Ekphrasis in Hans Bol’s Emblemata Evangelica of 1585 Walter S. Melion Part 2: Constructions of Identity: Landscapes and the Description of Reality 3 Landscape Description and the Hermeneutics of Neo-Latin Autobiography: the Case of Jacopo Sannazaro Karl Enenkel 4 Landscape in Marcus Gheeraerts’s Fable Illustrations Paul J. Smith 5 Order or Variety? Pieter Bruegel and the Aesthetics of Landscape Boudewijn Bakker 6 Schilderachtig: A Rhyparographic View of Early 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting Reindert Falkenburg 7 Landscape with Landmark: Jacob van Ruisdael’s Panorama of Amsterdam (1665–1670) Stijn Bussels 8 Jacob van Ruisdael’s The Jewish Cemetery, c. 1654–1655: Religious Toleration, Dutch Identity, and Divine Time Shelley Perlove 9 ‘Car la terre ici n’est telle qu’un fol l’estime’: Landscape Description as an Interpretative Tool in Two Early Modern Poems on New France William M. Barton Part 3: Constructions of Artificial Landscapes: Gardens, Villegiatura, Ruins 10 Hermeneutics and the Early Modern Garden: Ingenuity, Sociability, Education Denis Ribouillault 11 The Politics of Space of the Burgundian Garden Margaret Goehring 12 The Stratigraphy of Poetic Landscape at the Esquiline Villa Sarah McPhee 13 Poussin’s Allegory of Ruins Andrew Hui 14 ‘False Art’s Insolent Address’: The Enchanted Garden in Early Modern Literature and Landscape Design Luke Morgan Part 4: Constructions of Imaginary Landscapes 15 Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the Furioso Troy Tower 16 Epic Salvation: Christ’s Descent into Hell and the Landscape of the Underworld in Neo-Latin Christian Epic Lukas Reddemann 17 World Landscape as Visual Exegesis: Herri met de Bles’s Penitent Saint Jerome Michel Weemans 18 Cities of the Dead: Utopian Spaces, the Grotesque, and the Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France Kathleen Long Index Nominum
