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Book SynopsisThe Primacy of the Image in Northern Art 1400-1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver is an anthology of 42 essays written by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of Northern Europe of the late medieval and early modern periods. Written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, the topics are inspired by Professor Silver’s renowned scholarship in these areas: Early Netherlandish Painting and Prints; Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Painting; Manuscripts, Patrons, and Printed Books; Dürer and the Power of Pictures; Prints and Printmaking; and Seventeenth-Century Painting. Studies of specific artists include Hans Memling, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick Goltzius, and Rembrandt.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction Part 1: Early Netherlandish Painting and Prints 1 Strategies of Intimacy: Memling’s Triptych of Adriaan Reins Lynn F. Jacobs 2 Those Who Are Bashful Starve: An Interpretation of the Master of the Brunswick Diptych’s Holy Family at Meal Henry Luttikhuizen 3 Hugo van der Goes and Portraiture Maryan W. Ainsworth 4 The Besieged War-Elephant: A Boschian Moralized Antiwar Discourse Yona Pinson 5 The Overpainted Patron: Some Considerations about Dating Bosch’s Last Judgment Triptych in Vienna Erwin Pokorny Part 2 Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Painting 6 The Red Jew, Red Altarpiece and Jewish Iconography in Jan de Beer’s St. Joseph and the Suitors Dan Ewing 7 “Headlong” into Pieter Bruegel’s Series of the Seasons Reindert L. Falkenburg 8 Better Living Through Misinterpretation Bret Rothstein 9 The Last Supper with Donors in the Chrysler Museum Collection Lloyd DeWitt 10 Michiel Coxcie’s Artistic Quotations in The Death of Abel Christopher D. M. Atkins Part 3 Manuscripts, Patrons, and Printed Books 11 Veronica’s Textile Herbert L. Kessler 12 It’s February in the Early Fifteenth Century: What’s for Dinner? Harry Rand 13 Oratio ad Proprium Angelum: The Guardian Angel in the Rothschild Hours Dagmar Eichberger 14 Chinese Painting and Dutch Book Arts: The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Interpretation Dawn Odell 15 Kinesis and Death in Lautensack Christopher P. Heuer* 16 Virgil’s Flute: the Art and Science of “Antique Letters” and the Origins of Knowledge Andrew Morrall 17 Born to Teach: Nikolaus Glockendon’s Finding of Jesus in the Temple Debra Taylor Cashion 18 Nicolaes Witsen’s Collection, his Influence, and the Primacy of the Image Rebecca P. Brienen Part 4 Dürer and the Power of Pictures 19 Dürer’s Rhinoceros Underway: the Epistemology of the Copy in the Early Modern Print Stephanie Leitch 20 Praying against Pox: New Reflections on Dürer’s Jabach Altarpiece Birgit Ulrike Münch 21 The Weird Sisters of Hans Baldung Grien Bonnie Noble 22 Preserving Destruction: Albrecht Altdorfer’s Etchings of the Regensburg Synagogue as Material Performances of the Past and Future Ashley D. West 23 The Case of the Missing Gold Disc: A Crucifixion by Albrecht Dürer Miya Tokumitsu 24 Hitler’s Dürer? The Nuremberg Painter between Self-Portrayal and National Appropriation Thomas Schauerte 25 Performing Dürer: Staging the Artist in the Nineteenth Century Jeffrey Chipps Smith Part 5 Prints and Printmaking 26 The Burin, the Blade, and the Paper’s Edge: Early Sixteenth-Century Engraved Scabbard Designs by Monogrammist AC Brooks Rich 27 “Return to Your True Self!” Practicing Spiritual Therapy with the Spiegel der Vernunft in Munich Mitchell B. Merback 28 The Eucharistic Controversy and Daniel Hopfer’s Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament Freyda Spira 29 Recalibrating Witchcraft through Recycling and Collage: The Case of a Late Seventeenth-Century Anonymous Print Charles Zika 30 The Timeless Space of Maerten van Heemskerck’s Panoramas: Viewing Ruth and Boaz (1550) Arthur DiFuria 31 Hendrick Goltzius’s Method of Exegetical Allegory in his Scriptural Prints of the 1570s Walter S. Melion 32 Narrative, Ornament, and Politics in Maerten van Heemskerck’s Story of Esther (1564) Shelley Perlove 33 Disgust and Desire: Responses to Rembrandt’s Nudes Stephanie S. Dickey Part 6 Seventeenth-Century Painting 34 A New Painting by Dirck van Baburen Wayne Franits 35 “Verbum Domini manet in eternum”: Devotional Cabinets and Kunst- und Wunderkammern around 1600 James Clifton 36 Creating Attributability with the Five Senses of Jan Brueghel the Younger Hans J. Van Miegroet 37 Pieter Lastman’s Paintings of David’s Death Sentence for Uriah, 1611 and 1619 Amy Golahny 38 Thomas de Keyser’s Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis Ann Jensen Adams 39 On Painting the Unfathomable: Rubens and The Banquet of Tereus Aneta Georgievska-Shine 40 Jan Miense Molenaer’s Boys with Dwarfs and the Heroic Tradition of Art David A. Levine 41 Is it a Rembrandt? Catherine B. Scallen 42 Pieter Codde and the Industry of Copies in 17th-century Dutch Painting Jochai Rosen Appendix: Larry Silver Bibliography Index
