Bibelauslegung durch Bilder

Zur sakralen Intermedialitat im 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert

by Johann Anselm Steiger and edited by Jan Harasimowicz, Herman J. Selderhuis, Bettina Seyderhelm, Albrecht Weiland and Ulrich Andreas Wien

Book cover: Bibelauslegung durch Bilder

Extent: 456 pages

Publisher: Schnell & Steiner

Subjects: Art & Art History, Biblical Studies, Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Kunst und Konfession in der Fruhen Neuzeit

Series volume number: 2

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(April 2018)

ISBN: 9783795433246

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $75.00

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This volume offers sixteen studies of early modern spiritual iconography and its historical-theological relevance. Special attention is paid to the process of how sacred images provide media-specific contributions to the exegesis of Scripture, in context of their respective interpretative and theological contexts. Starting with Martin Luther’s pictorial hermeneutics during the century of the Reformation, the narrative arc is expanded into the Enlightenment, when Johann August Nahl refined and intensified early modern imagery with his Hindelbanker Grabplatte. In addition, a masterpiece by the Antwerp painter Frans Floris, ecclesiastical furnishings (pulpits, altars, epitaphs, ceiling paintings) from the 16th to the 18th century, and spiritual printmaking are also taken into consideration.


Der Band bietet 16 profunde Studien zur geistlichen Ikonographie der Fruhen Neuzeit und deren historisch-theologischer Relevanz. Besonderes Augenmerk wird hierbei darauf gerichtet, welche medienspezifische Beitrage sakrale Bildwerke zur Exegese der Heiligen Schrift leisten – und dies stets vor dem Hintergrund der jeweiligen auslegungs-, theologie-, predigt- und frommigkeitsgeschichtlichen Kontexte.

  • By (author) Johann Anselm Steiger
  • Edited by Jan Harasimowicz
  • Edited by Herman J Selderhuis
  • Edited by Bettina Seyderhelm
  • Edited by Albrecht Weiland
  • Edited by Ulrich Andreas Wien