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Natasha F. H. O'Hear.
Contrasting Images of the Book of Revelation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art: A Case Study in Visual Exegesis.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Series: Oxford Theological Monographs.
Publication date: January 2011.
Size: 234x156mm.
Page count: text 304pp, plates 16pp.

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Hardback ISBN 9780199590100, £75.00

Description:

Natasha O'Hear considers seven different visualisations of all or part of the Book of Revelation across a range of different media, from illuminated manuscripts, to tapestries, to altarpieces to paintings woodcut prints. Artists featured include the Van Eycks, Memling, Botticelli, Dürer and Cranach the Elder. This study is a contribution to the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern period in the form of seven visual case studies ranging from 1250-1522.

It is also is an attempt to understand the different ways in which images exhibit hermeneutical strategies akin to what is found in textual exegesis, but with the peculiar properties of synchronicity of both subject-matter and effect that distinguish them from reading a text. The book explores the multi-faceted scope of visual exegesis as a way of exploring the content and the character of a biblical text such as The Book of Revelation, as well as the complementary relationship between textual and visual exegesis.

Readership: Scholars and Students of the Book of Revelation; of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Art History and Church History; of Eschatology.

Contents:
Introduction. 1: The Lambeth Apocalypse: The Thirteenth Century. 2: The Angers Apocalypse Tapestry: The Fourteenth Century. 3: The Ghent Altarpiece and the St John Altarpiece: The Fifteenth Century. 4: The Mystic Nativity: Botticelli and the Book of Revelation. 5: A Time of Transition: Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany. 6: Hermeneutical Reflections and Visual Exegesis. Conclusion.