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

Art historians explore images of love in art and art theory from 1500 to 1700 through the lenses of imagination, and erotic desire; metamorphic imagery of love; optics, aesthetics, and the visual poetics of desire; amorous desire, domestic virtue, and love's mirror; portrayals of spousal love; youth, friendship, and other inflections of divine love; desire, fellowship, and Marian mimesis; and picturing love in the marketplace. The 21 essays are reworked from presentations at an October 2015 colloquium at Emory University. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.