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Motus mixti et compositi : the portrayal of mixed and compound emotions in the visual and literary arts of Europe, 1500-1700 /

"This book examines deployments of mixed emotion in the literary and pictorial arts of early modern Europe. It consists of two parts, the first focusing on portrayals of mixed emotion in theatre, poetry, and prose, the second on forms and functions of mixed emotion in spiritual exercises center...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Enenkel, K. A. E. (Editor), Melion, Walter S. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]
Series:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 90.
Subjects:
Emotions in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
European literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Emotions in art.
Affect (Psychology) in art.
Painting, European > 16th century.
Painting, European > 17th century.
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature européenne > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Peinture européenne > 16e siècle.
Peinture européenne > 17e siècle.
1500-1699
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Motus mixti et compositi - the portrayal of mixed and compound emotions in the visual and literary arts of Europe, 1500-1700 / Walter S. Melion
  • Part 1. Portraying mixed emotions in the literary arts
  • Section A. Mixed emotions in Dutch and Latin drama
  • All motion discovers us : moral discernment and the role of the passions in Willem van Nieulandt's Nero (1618) / Bart Ramakers
  • Staging the in-between : compound, conflicting and shifting emotions in seventeenth-century Neo-Latin drama from the Dutch Republic / Lukas Reddemann
  • Section B. Mixed emotions in Neo-Latin and French poetry
  • Between fleeting and compound emotions in Neo-Latin lyric poetry on "Turks" : Georgius Sisgoreus' Elegia de Sibenicensis agri vastatione / Ludovica Sasso
  • Shifting emotions in Neo-Latin psalm poetry and erotic elegy : George Buchanan and Janus Lernutius / Carolin A. Giere
  • On red and white cheeks : Jakob Balde's poetic ekphrases on a triptych by Christoph Schwarz in the light of the scholastic theory of the Passions / ALine Smeesters
  • Mixed motives : the art of Joachim Du Bellay, 1549-1558 / Tom Conley
  • Section C. Mixed emtions in prose literature
  • Tears of love and sorrow : the affective regime of the European pastoral tradition / Anita Traninger
  • "How we weep and laught at the same thing" : conflicting emotions in Rabelais and Montaigne / Paul J. Smith
  • The troubles of Christian perfection : Berinzaga, Gagliardi, Borromeo / Wietse de Boer
  • Part 2. Portraying mixed emotions in the visual arts
  • Section A. Mixed emotions in image-based spiritual exercises
  • O vos omnes : recognition, tragic emotion, and the passerby topos in northern European art around 1500 / Mitchell Merback
  • Mixed emotion and spiritual perfection in Abraham Bloemaert's Sylva anachoretica of 1619 / Walter S. Melion
  • Spiritual joy in the face of death : compound emotions in texts and images of the martyrs of the Japan mission / Raphaèle Preisinger
  • Materialities of mixed emotions and spiritual martyrdom between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Grand Duchy of Tuscany / Ruth Sargent Noyes
  • Section B. Heuristic and sanative images of mixed emotions / Francisci chorda traxit ad se plurima corda : "drawing" the heart's emotions in Jan Provoost's diptych of Christ Carrying the Cross / Elliott D. Wise
  • "Symbolic anatomies" : Hendrick Goltzius and the ambiguities of early modern disability / Barbara A. Kaminska
  • Exploring complex emotions through the portrayal of dialogic exchange : Pieter Lastman's Paul and Barnabas in Lystra of 1617 / Graham R. Lea
  • Between despair and hope : raising emotions with Dutch seventeenth-century marine paintings and prints / Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt.