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 Mâle, 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.
Edited by:
Colum Hourihane
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.280kg
ISBN: 9780367334321
ISBN 10: 0367334321
Series: Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
Pages: 548
Publication Date: 21 June 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures and PlatesPreface Biographical Notes on the ContributorsMedieval Iconography, An Introduction Colum Hourihane Part I THE GREAT ICONOGRAPHERS 1. Andrea Alciato Denis L. Drysdall and Peter M. Daly 2. Ripa, the TrincianteCornelia Logemann 3. Adolphe-Napoléon Didron (Paris 1867–Hautvilliers 1906) Emilie Maraszak 4. Louis Réau Daniel Russo 5. Émile Mâle Kirk Ambrose 6. Aby M. Warburg: Iconographer? Peter van Huisstede 7. Fritz Saxl: Transformation and Reconfiguration of Pagan Gods in Medieval Art Katia Mazzucco 8. Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) Dieter Wuttke 9. Charles Rufus Morey and the Index of Christian Art Colum Hourihane 10. Hans van de Waal, A Portrait Edward Grasman 11. Meyer Schapiro as Iconographer Patricia Stirnemann 12. Michael Camille’s Queer Middle Ages Matthew M. Reeve Part II SYSTEMS AND CATALOGUING TOOLS 13. The Anthropology of Images Ralph Dekoninck 14. Classifying Image Content in Visual Collections: A Selective History Chiara Franceschini 15. Library of Congress Subject Headings Sherman Clarke 16. Iconclass: a Key to Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Hans Brandhorst and Etienne Posthumus Section III THEMES IN MEDIEVAL ART 17. Religious Iconography Marina Vicelja 18. Liturgical Iconography Karl F. Morrison 19. Secular Iconography Harald Wolter-von dem Knesebeck 20. Erotic Iconography Madeline H. Caviness 21. The Iconography of Narrative Anne F. Harris 22. Political Iconography and The Emblematic Way of Seeing György E. Szönyi 23. Picturing the Stars – Scientific Iconography in the Middle Ages Dieter Blume 24. Medicine’s Image Jack Hartnell 25. Patronage: A Useful Category of Art Historical Analysis Elizabeth Carson Pastan 26. Royal and Imperial Iconography Joan A. Holladay 27. The Iconography of Architecture Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo 28. Heraldic Imagery, Definition, and Principles Laurent Hablot 29. Medieval Maps and Diagrams Diarmuid Scully 30. The Iconography of Gender Sherry C.M. Lindquist 31. Feminist Art History and Medieval Iconography Martha Easton 32. The Iconography of Color Andreas Petzold 33. Flowers and Plants, the Living Iconography Celia Fisher 34. The Iconography of Light Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Michael W. Cothren 35. The Visual Representation of Music and Sound Susan Boynton 36. The Other in the Middle Ages, Difference, Identity, and Iconography Pamela A. Patton 37. Animal Iconography Debra Higgs Strickland 38. Monstrous Iconography Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim
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.
