Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Göttler, Christine, Neuber, Wolfgang
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Intersections, v. 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler
  • Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber
  • Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler
  • Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein
  • Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre
  • Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub
  • Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer
  • Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn
  • "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. Williams
  • Bilder des Unsichtbaren : Robert Fludd's Konzeption des Weltgeistes / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
  • Sympathy in Eden : on paradise with the fall of man by Rubens and Brueghel / Paul J. Smith
  • Dizzying visions : St. Teresa of Jesus and the embodied visual image / Rose Marie San Juan
  • Spirit as intermediary in post-Cartesian natural philosophy / Justin E.H. Smith
  • The motions of laughter : allegory and physiology in Walter Charleton's Natural history of the passions (1674) / Dawn Morgan
  • Ghosts in the machine : the apparition of Mrs. Veal, Rowe's friendship in death, and the early eighteenth-century invisible world / Jennifer Frangos
  • Die Geburt des Kunstwerks durch den Geist der Proportion : Franz Xavier Messerschmidt und seine Charakterkopfe / Axel Christoph Gampp.