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This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things. The volume brings together work across diverse printed images, objects, and materials produced c. 1500-1700, as well as well as works in the ambit of early modern print culture, to reframe a comparative history of the rise of the ‘epistemic imprint’ as a new visual genre at the onset of the scientific revolution. The book includes contributions from the perspective of international scholars and museum professionals drawing on methodologies from a range of fields.

Theory of knowledge --- Graphic arts --- scientific illustration [process] --- epistemology --- kunst en wetenschap --- anno 1500-1799

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Knowledge, Theory of --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Congresses --- Congrès --- -Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- -Congresses --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Congrès --- knowledge

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Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge.

Symbolism in art --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- History --- Conferences - Meetings --- Iconography --- knowledge --- symbolism [artistic concept] --- emblems [symbols] --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Symbolism in art - Congresses --- Knowledge, Theory of - Europe - History - Congresses

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The term ad vivum and its cognates al vivo , au vif , nach dem Leben and naer het leven have been applied since the thirteenth century to depictions designated as from, to or after (the) life. This book explores the issues raised by this vocabulary and related terminology with reference to visual materials produced and used in Europe before 1800, including portraiture, botanical, zoological, medical and topographical images, images of novel and newly discovered phenomena, and likenesses created through direct contact with the object being depicted. The designation ad vivum was not restricted to depictions made directly after the living model, and was often used to advertise the claim of an image to be a faithful likeness or a bearer of reliable information. Viewed as an assertion of accuracy or truth, ad vivum raises a number of fundamental questions in the area of early modern epistemology – questions about the value and prestige of visual and/or physical contiguity between image and original, about the kinds of information which were thought important and dependably transmissible in material form, and about the roles of the artist in that transmission. The recent interest of historians of early modern art in how value and meaning are produced and reproduced by visual materials which do not conform to the definition of art as unique invention, and of historians of science and of art in the visualisation of knowledge, has placed the questions surrounding ad vivum at the centre of their common concerns. Contributors: Thomas Balfe, José Beltrán, Carla Benzan, Eleanor Chan, Robert Felfe, Mechthild Fend, Sachiko Kusukawa, Pieter Martens, Richard Mulholland, Noa Turel, Joanna Woodall, and Daan Van Heesch.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Classical Latin language --- History as a science --- historiography --- visual resources --- graphic arts --- Europe --- Art --- Latin language --- Historiography --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Visual communication --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Similarity --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Historiography&delete& --- Terminology --- Terms and phrases --- Criticism --- Art, Primitive --- Terminology. --- Terms and phrases. --- History.

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Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age,' many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.

Theory of knowledge --- humor --- epistemology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Art --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Laughter in literature. --- Humor in literature. --- Laughter --- Wit and humor, Medieval. --- Wit and humor --- Rire dans la littérature --- Humour dans la littérature --- Rire --- Humour médiéval --- Humour --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Religious aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire et critique --- Laughter -- History. --- Laughter -- Philosophy. --- Laughter -- Religious aspects. --- Wit and humor -- History and criticism. --- Wit and humor -- History. --- Laughter in literature --- Humor in literature --- Wit and humor, Medieval --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History --- Philosophy --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Rire dans la littérature --- Humour dans la littérature --- Humour médiéval --- Laughter (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Laughing --- Bons mots --- Facetiae --- Humor --- Jests --- Jokes --- Ludicrous, The --- Ridiculous, The --- Wit and humor, Primitive --- Emotions --- Nonverbal communication --- Joking --- Laughter / in Literature. --- lachen