WALTER S. MELION (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley,
1988)
Research Interests
Northern Renaissance and Baroque art, with an emphasis on art and art theory of the Low Countries; early modern printmaking; meditative and mnemonic imagery; Jesuit spirituality
Selected Publications
Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s “Schilder-Boeck” (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
The Art of Vision in Jerome Nadal’s “Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia,” monographic study introducing Volume I: The Infancy Narratives, part of the three-volume series, Jerome Nadal, “Annotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels,” trans. F. Homann, S.J. (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2003)
“Mortis illius imagines ut vitae: The Image of the Glorified Christ in Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia,” in F. Homann, S.J., ed. and trans., Jerome Nadal, “Annotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels,” Volume III: The Resurrection Narratives (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2005): 1-32
“Benedictus Arias Montanus and the Virtual Studio as a Meditative Place,” in M. Cole and M. Pardo, eds., Inventions of the Studio: Renaissance to Romanticism (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005): 73-107, 196-201
Current Projects
Books:
The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, forthcoming)
Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. R. Falkenburg and W. Melion (proceedings of the 2003 Lovis Corinth Symposium) (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, forthcoming)
Articles:
“‘Nor my praise to graven images’: Divine Artifice and the Heart’s Idols in Georg Mack the Elder’s Painted Print of The Trinity,” in The Renaissance Idol, eds. M. Cole and R. Zorach (London: Ashgate Press, forthcoming)
“The Image of the Sacrificial Christ in Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia,” in F. Homann, S.J., ed. and trans., Jerome Nadal, “Annotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels,” Volume II: The Passion Narratives (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, forthcoming)
Symposia:
“Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700,” Second Lovis Corinth Symposium, co-organizers R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni-Bruslé, and W. Melion (Atlanta, October 12-14, 2006)
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