This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at
Auteur
Colum Hourihane received his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1983 for a thesis on the iconography of Gothic art in Ireland, part of which was subsequently published as Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550: Enduring Vitality (2003). He was deputy director of the Witt Computer Index in the Courtauld Institute until 1997 before becoming director of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, where he was until retirement in 2014. He has edited over twenty volumes of art historical studies and has single-authored five volumes. Among the latter are The Processional Cross in Late Medieval England: The Dallye Cross (2005) and Pontius Pilate, Anti-Semitism, and the Passion in medieval Art (2009). A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Irish Academy in 2015.
Résumé
Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians - including Male, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro - have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened.This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.
Contenu
*List of Figures and Plates**Preface
Biographical Notes on the Contributors*Medieval Iconography, An Introduction
Colum Hourihane
Part I
THE GREAT ICONOGRAPHERS
Andrea Alciato
Denis L. Drysdall and Peter M. Daly
Ripa, the *Trinciante*Cornelia Logemann
Adolphe-Napoléon Didron (Paris 1867-Hautvilliers 1906)
Emilie Maraszak
Louis Réau
Daniel Russo
Émile Mâle
Kirk Ambrose
Aby M. Warburg: Iconographer?
Peter van Huisstede
Fritz Saxl: Transformation and Reconfiguration of Pagan Gods in Medieval Art
Katia Mazzucco
Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)
Dieter Wuttke
Charles Rufus Morey and the Index of Christian Art
Colum Hourihane
Hans van de Waal, A Portrait
Edward Grasman
Meyer Schapiro as Iconographer
Patricia Stirnemann
Michael Camille's Queer Middle Ages
Matthew M. Reeve
**Part II
SYSTEMS AND CATALOGUING TOOLS
The Anthropology of Images
Ralph Dekoninck
Classifying Image Content in Visual Collections: A Selective History
Chiara Franceschini
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Sherman Clarke
Iconclass: a Key to Collaboration in the Digital Humanities
Hans Brandhorst and Etienne Posthumus
**Section III
THEMES IN MEDIEVAL ART
Religious Iconography
Marina Vicelja
Liturgical Iconography
Karl F. Morrison
Secular Iconography
Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck
Erotic Iconography
Madeline H. Caviness
The Iconography of Narrative
Anne F. Harris
Political Iconography and The Emblematic Way of Seeing
György E. Szönyi
Picturing the Stars - Scientific Iconography in the Middle Ages
Dieter Blume
Medicine's Image
Jack Hartnell
Patronage: A Useful Category of Art Historical Analysis
Elizabeth Carson Pastan
Royal and Imperial Iconography
Joan A. Holladay
The Iconography of Architecture
Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo
Heraldic Imagery, Definition, and Principles
Laurent Hablot
Medieval Maps and Diagrams
Diarmuid Scully
The Iconography of Gender
Sherry C.M. Lindquist
Feminist Art History and Medieval Iconography
Martha Easton
The Iconography of Color
Andreas Petzold
Flowers and Plants, the Living Iconography
Celia Fisher
The Iconography of Light
Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Michael W. Cothren
The Visual Representation of Music and Sound
Susan Boynton
The Other in the Middle Ages, Difference, Identity, and Iconography
Pamela A. Patton
Animal Iconography
Debra Higgs Strickland
Monstrous Iconography
Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim