UT Pictura Amor - The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700

An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.

About the author

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, and Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius.

Joanna Woodall teaches at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She has a longstanding interest portraiture, and hence the relationship between realism and desire. Her publications include studies of the importance of love and friendship to the creation of works of art, and to conceptions of art, in the early modern Netherlands.

Michael Zell is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University. He has published widely on seventeenth-century Dutch artistic culture, with a particular focus on Rembrandt and Vermeer, religious imagery, gift giving, and the poetics of painting.

Product details

• Assisted by: Walter Melion (Editor), Joanna Woodall (Editor), Michael Zell (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2017
• EAN: 9789004346451
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34645-1
• No. of pages: 812
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 1634 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts