{"product_id":"landscape-and-the-visual-hermeneutics-of-place-1500-1700-9789004436220","title":"Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210805600599,"sku":"9789004436220","price":185.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscape-and-the-visual-hermeneutics-of-place-1500-1700-9789004436220","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}