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Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700 examines the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia. The term ‘reflexive’ is here used to refer to images that invite reflection not only on their form, function, and meaning, but also on their genesis and mode of production. Early modern artists often fashioned reflexive images and effigies of this kind, that appraise love by exploring the lineaments of the pictorial or sculptural image, and complementarily, appraise the pictorial or sculptural image by exploring the nature of love. Hence the book’s epigraph— ut pictura amor —‘as is a picture, so is love’.

Love in art. --- Sex in art. --- Image (Philosophy) --- Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Philosophy. --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- love [emotion] --- Aesthetics --- eroticism --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Amour -- Dans l'art --- Amour --- Dans l'art --- Art and philosophy --- Philosophy --- Dans l'art. --- Love in art --- Sex in art