Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Renaissance --- Medieval [European] --- iconography --- History of Europe --- Art --- Jael --- Personnages bibliques --- Iconography --- heroines --- Art, Medieval --- Art médiéval --- Art, Renaissance --- Art de la Renaissance --- Art and society --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs --- History --- Aspect social --- Yaël, --- Art. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Art and society. --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Renaissance art --- Subjects --- Social aspects --- To 1599 --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Themes, motives

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions - monstrosities even - that manifest themselves in a variety of ways. In some cases, dichotomies (between order and chaos, artificiality and nature, rational logic and imaginative creativity, etc.) may emerge. Elsewhere, a sense of agitation undermines structures of statuesque control or erupts into wild, unruly displays of constant genesis. The monstrosity of ornament is brought into play through strategies of hybridity and metamorphosis, or by the handling of scale, proportion, and space in ambiguous and discomforting ways that break with the laws of physical reality. An interest in strange exaggeration and curious artifice allows for such colossal ornamental attitude to thrive within early modern art.

Art, European --- Art, Renaissance --- Art --- Decoration and ornament --- Monsters in art --- grotesques --- ornaments [object genre] --- monsters [legendary beings] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Art, Renaissance. --- 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 --- Renaissance art --- Art, Decorative --- Decorative art --- Decorative design --- Design, Decorative --- Nature in ornament --- Ornament --- Painting, Decorative --- Decorative arts --- Arts and crafts movement --- Art, Modern --- European art --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Zaj (Group of artists) --- Early modern and Renaissance art, artificiality, playfulness, ambiguity, anxiety, ornament. --- Art européen --- Art de la Renaissance --- Art, Primitive --- Decoration and ornament, Primitive --- Art, European - 16th century --- Art - Europe - 16th century --- Decoration and ornament - Europe - 16th century --- Monsters in art - 16th century