Includes bibliographical references (p. [438]-448) and index.
Contents:
I. The painter and his world -- Portrayal -- Hans Holbein -- The two ambassadors. Jean de Dinteville ; Georges de Selve ; After Cranmer's judgement ; Diplomatic catholics -- Nicolaus Kratzer. Astronomy and the liberal arts ; Thomas More and Oxford -- II. The painting -- Strange devices -- Instruments for the heavens -- The mundane level -- The distorted skull. The scrots anamorphic portrait -- From Apelles to an abbey pavement. The Apelles line ; The St Michael-Rome line -- Hints of astrology -- III. The meaning -- Shadow and truth. Memento mori -- Touched by the occult. Magic and angels ; Metaphors of spirit ; Humanism and magic ; Gematria and the Cabala ; Agrippa and the luxuriance of occult belief ; An alchemical image? -- Air on a broken string -- Theologies of the cross. Colet, More and the sun ; More and the crucifixion ; Luther's 'Theology of the cross' -- Symbols of the millennium. Ram, cross and creation ; Cygnus and the cross ; The rituals of Good Friday ; Fears for the mid-millennium -- On painters and authors. Chaucer at the court of Henry VIII -- Apelles and Clio -- Appendix 1: Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ -- Appendix 2: The compound solar instrument -- Appendix 3: Rabanus Maurus and Solomon's throne -- Appendix 4: Holbein and Chaucer compared.
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