Parution : Walter S. Melion et Michael Zell (dir.), “The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture, 1500–1700”, Leyde, Brill, 2026
The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture examines paintings, drawings, and prints that use various representational contrivances to call attention to their status as pictorial images, in ways calculated both to stir the emotions and to incite interpretation. The books consists of five sections: “Materials, Artifice, and Agencies of the Hand” examines images in which the saliency of medium and manufacture mediate the conveyance of affect and meaning; “Thinking and Picturing” focuses on images...
