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Description

1. xiv, 358 pages; 25 cm

Summary

1. 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 especially fertile moral paradox in the art of the early modern period. Jael's representations offer insights into key religious, intellectual, and social developments in late medieval and early modern society. They reflect the influence on art of exegesis, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, humanism and moral philosophy, misogyny and the battle of the sexes, the emergence of syphilis, and the Renaissance ideal of the artist. -- ‡c From back cover.

Series statement

1. Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 278
2. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 25

Uniform title

1. Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 278.
2. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 25.

Subject

1. Art and society
2. Art
3. Art, Medieval > Themes, motives
4. Art and society > Europe > History > 16th century
5. Art, Renaissance > Themes, motives
6. Europe
7. Art and society > Europe > History > To 1500
8. To 1599
9. Jael (Biblical figure) > Art
10. History

Genre/Form

1. Art.
2. History.

Contents

1. PART 1 : The Riddle of Jael -- Jael under Erasure -- Jael in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Thought - PART 2 : Transformations of Jael (1400-1550) -- Jan van Eyck and the Early Modern Re-imagination of Jael -- Albrecht Altdorfer's Jael, the Power of Women, and Syphilis in Sixteenth-Century Print -- Lambert Lombard's Jael, Poxied Penitents, and Northern Humanism - PART 3 : Jael among the Haarlem Humanists (1550-1600) -- Maarten van Heemskerck and Dirck Coornhert's Power of Women: A Pasquinade on the Perfectibility of the Imperfect Soul -- Maarten van Heemskerck and Hendrick Goltzius on Jael's Nail and the Artist's Hand -- Philips Galle and Hadrianus Junius' Jael: A Biblical Circe and Her Eloquent Riddle.

Call number

1. JQE 18-679

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Brown, P. Scott, author.

Title

1. The riddle of Jael : the history of a poxied heroine in Medieval and Renaissance art and culture / by Peter Scott Brown.

Publisher

1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 278
2. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 25
3. Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 278.
4. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 25.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. To 1599

Other form:

1. Online version: Brown, P. Scott. Riddle of Jael. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004364660 (DLC) 2018002207

LCCN

1. 2018001823

ISBN

1. 9789004364387 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
2. 9004364382 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Research call number

1. JQE 18-679