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The riddle of Jael : the history of a poxied heroine in Medieval and Renaissance art and culture /
In The Riddle of Jael , Peter Scott Brown offers the first history of the Biblical heroine Jael in medieval and Renaissance art. Jael, who betrayed and killed the tyrant Sisera in the Book of Judges by hammering a tent peg through his brain as he slept under her care, was a blessed murderess and an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Colección: | Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part 1 The Riddle of Jael; Chapter 1 Jael under Erasure; Chapter 2 Jael in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Thought; Part 2 Transformations of Jael (1400-1550); Chapter 3 Jan van Eyck and the Early Modern Re-imagination of Jael; Chapter 4 Albrecht Altdorfer's Jael, the Power of Women, and Syphilis in Sixteenth-Century Print; Chapter 5 Lambert Lombard's Jael, Poxied Penitents, and Northern Humanism; Part 3 Jael among the Haarlem Humanists (1550-1600)
- Chapter 6 Maarten van Heemskerck and Dirck Coornhert's Power of Women: A Pasquinade on the Perfectibility of the Imperfect SoulChapter 7 Maarten van Heemskerck and Hendrick Goltzius on Jael's Nail and the Artist's Hand; Chapter 8 Philips Galle and Hadrianus Junius' Jael: A Biblical Circe and Her Eloquent Riddle; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index