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Image and Belief

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Colum Hourihane, Editor
ISBN 069101003X
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999
Size: 215x280 mm (8.5x11in.); 342 pages, 4 color photos, 175 halftones; Trade Paperback

The Index of Christian Art, founded in 1917, is today recognized as the premier resource for Christian and medieval iconography up to 1400. To mark its eightieth anniversary, seventeen scholars contributed papers to this volume, which focuses on the Index's twin strengths: iconography and methodology. From the heterogeneous imagery of the Crusaders to the repellent iconography of social rejection, from the significance of gruesome torture scenes to the moral precepts that shaped the enigmatic Ashburnham Pentateuch, the studies in the first part of Image and Belief provide stimulating examples of recent research in iconography.

With the growing application of computer databases and the Internet to the field of art history, the process of describing and classifying the subjects of art has become even more important and controversial. The papers in the second part of this volume deal with this critical area, giving analytical proposals for improving art-historical standards through computerization. They also provide case histories of specific applications, including the use of a database of Dutch printers' devices to reveal the long-hidden meaning of a major painting by Rubens. Particular attention is given to the use of ICONCLASS in iconographic description and to demonstrations of the improved capabilities of the new Iconclass2000 browser.

The contributors are Adelaide Bennett, Hans Brandhorst, James D'Emilio, Gerda Duifjes-Vellekoop, John Fleming, Jaroslav Folda, Giovanni Freni, Cynthia Hahn, Debra Hassig, Avril Henry, Lutz Heusinger, Andreas Petzold, Helene Roberts, Alison Stones, Carol Togneri, Peter van Huisstede, Jörgen van den Berg, and Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk.

With the growing application of computer databases and the Internet to the field of art history, the process of describing and classifying the subjects of art has become even more important and controversial. The papers in the second part of this volume deal with this critical area, giving analytical proposals for improving art-historical standards through computerization. They also provide case histories of specific applications, including the use of a database of Dutch printers' devices to reveal the long-hidden meaning of a major painting by Rubens. Particular attention is given to the use of ICONCLASS in iconographic description and to demonstrations of the improved capabilities of the new Iconclass2000 browser.The contributors are Adelaide Bennett, Hans Brandhorst, James D'Emilio, Gerda Duifjes-Vellekoop, John Fleming, Jaroslav Folda, Giovanni Freni, Cynthia Hahn, Debra Hassig, Avril Henry, Lutz Heusinger, Andreas Petzold, Helene Roberts, Alison Stones, Carol Togneri, Peter van Huisstede, Jörgen van den Berg, and Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk. Reviews: "[The book] shows the fruits of specialist research and is gloriously eclectic in its material. . . . All of this makes for fascinating reading for the academic art historian. . . ."--Christopher Colven, The Art Newspaper "A volume with many solid and some truly outstanding examples of both traditional and innovative iconographic scholarship."--CAA Reviews

Table of Contents
Prefaces ix
Notes on the Contributors xiii
List of Illustrations xvii
Abbreviations xxv
COLUM HOURIHANE Introduction 3
PART 1. ICONOGRAPHY
JAROSLAV FOLDA Problems in the Iconography of the Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1098-1291/1917-1997 11
DEBRA HASSIG The Iconography of Rejection: Jews and Other Monstrous Races 25
ALISON STONES Nipples, Entrails, Severed Heads, and Skin: Devotional Images for Madame Marie 47
DOROTHY HOOGLAND VERKERK Moral Structure in the Ashburnharn Pentateuch 71
ADELAIDE BENNETT A Woman's Power of Prayer versus the Devil in a Book of Hours of ca. 1300 89
CYNTHIA HAHN Interpictoriality in the Limoges Chasses of Stephen, Martial, and Valerie 10
ANDREAS PETZOLD Of the Significance of Colours: The Iconography of Colour in Romanesque and Early Gothic Book Illumination 125
JAMES D'EMILIC Looking Eastward: The Story of Noe at Monreale Cathedral 135
GIOVANNI FRENI The Architecture and Sculpture of the Portal of the South Side of Arezzo Cathedral 151
AVRIL HENRY Daring Conflation? A Difficult Image in the Genesis Sequence of the Eton Roundels (Eton College, Ms. 177, f. 2r) 169
JOHN V. FLEMING The Personal Appropriation of Iconographic Forms: Two Franciscan Signatures 205
PART 2. METHODOLOGY
LUTZ HEUSINGER How to Improve Art-Historical Services 215
HELENE E. ROBERTS The Persistence of Mythological, Religious, and Literary Narratives as Subjects of Works of Art 227
PETER VAN HUISSTEDE The Iconography of The Ship of State by Peter Paul Rubens: A Variant on the Theme Hercules am Scheidewege 243
CAROL TOGNERI ICONCLASS and Its Application to Primary Documents 259
HANS BRANDHORST Ululas Athenas: Owls to Athens 271
JURGEN VAN DEN BERG AND GERDA G. J. DUIJFJES-VELLEKOOP Translating ICONCLASS and the Connectivity Concept of the Iconclass2000 Browser 291
Index 307

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