Depicting perspective : the return of the gaze in Codex Telleriano-Remensis (c. 1563).

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by  Rabasa, José

Early Modern Eyes
Intersections
Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture
General Editor
Karl A.E. Enenkel
Chair of Neo-Latin Literature
Faculty of Arts, University of Leiden
P.O. Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden-NL
e-mail: [email protected]
Editorial Board
W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden)
W. de Boer (Miami University)
K.A.E. Enenkel (University of Leiden)
R.L. Falkenburg (New York University)
J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen)
E.E.P. Kolfi n (University of Amsterdam)
W. Melion (Emory University)
K. Murphy (University of Oxford)
W. Neuber (Free University of Berlin)
H. Roodenburg (P.J. Meertens Institute)
P.J. Smith (University of Leiden)
R.K. Todd (University of Leiden)
C. Zittel (Max Planck Institut, Florence)
Advisory Board
K. VAN BERKEL (University of Groningen) – F. EGMOND
A. GRAFTON (Princeton University) – A. HAMILTON (Warburg Institute)
C.L. HEESAKKERS – H.A. HENDRIX (Utrecht University) – F.J. VAN INGEN
J.I. ISRAEL (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.) – M. JACOBS (Free University of Brussels)
K.A. OTTENHEYM (Utrecht University) – K. PORTEMAN
E.J. SLUIJTER (University of Amsterdam)
VOLUME 13 – 2009
Early Modern Eyes
Edited by
Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2010
Illustration on the cover: Detail of the “Visitation”. Woodcut illustration to Petrus Canisius’s
De Maria Virgine [. . .], in Commentarium de Verbi Dei corruptelis [. . .] (Ingolstadt, David
Sartorius: 1583), book IV, chapter 3, 401. Maurits Sabbebibliotheek, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven. (See also pages 212 and 218 of this volume.)
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
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Early modern eyes / edited by Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel.
p. cm. — (Intersections, ISSN 1568-1181 ; v. 13)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-17974-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Visual perception—History.
2. Perception (Philosophy)—History. I. Melion, Walter S. II. Wandel, Lee Palmer.
BF241.E17 2010
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ....................................................................... vii
Notes on the Editors ................................................................... ix
List of Contributors .................................................................... xi
List of Illustrations ...................................................................... xiii
Introduction ................................................................................ 1
Lee Palmer Wandel
The Politics of Light: Al-Kindī’s Geometrical Optics and
the Vindication of the American Tropics in Bartolomé
de las Casas’s Apologética historia sumaria (1527–1561) ............. 11
Nicolás Wey Gómez
A Topographer’s Eye: From Gilles Corrozet to Pieter Apian ... 55
Tom Conley
The Ethnographic Lens in the New World: Staden, De Bry,
and the Representation of the Tupi in Brazil ....................... 81
Neil L. Whitehead
Depicting Perspective: The Return of the Gaze in Codex
Telleriano-Remensis (c. 1563) ................................................ 105
José Rabasa
John Calvin and Michel de Montaigne on the Eye .................. 135
Lee Palmer Wandel
Quel rapport entre un jeu de paume et le roi David ?
Analogie et Exégèse Visuelle dans le David et Bethsabée
de Herri met de Bles .............................................................. 157
Michel Weemans
vi contents
‘Quae lecta Canisius offert et spectata diu’: The Pictorial Images
in Petrus Canisius’s De Maria Virgine of 1577/1583 .............. 207
Walter S. Melion
Index Nominum ......................................................................... 267
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and foremost, the editors wish to thank Karl Enenkel, founding
editor of Intersections, for his keen interest and active support, which led
crucially to the publication of this volume.
The book began as a Burdick-Vary conference at the Institute for
Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
We are grateful to David Sorkin, the Director of the Institute, and to
the Burdick-Vary and Anonymous Funds for their most generous sup-
port of the conference. We are especially grateful to Loretta Freiling,
who contributed in innumerable ways to its success.
At the University of Wisconsin, a Fellowship at the Institute for
Research in the Humanities provided time for editing the collection
of essays.
At Emory University, Dean Robert Paul, Associate Dean Cristine
Levenduski, and Professor Judy Rohrer, Chair of Art History, made
possible the leave year during which Early Modern Eyes advanced to
completion. Frank Jackson, Visual Resources Librarian, helped in
innumerable ways to prepare the images for publication.
The editors also owe a debt of thanks to Rector Dr. Wim Blockmans
and his superlative staff at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Study, where the editing of this volume was fi nished in Spring 2009. We
are especially grateful to Anneke Vrins for her editorial assistance.
Walter S. Melion Lee Palmer Wandel

NOTES ON THE EDITORS
Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art His-
tory at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has taught since
2004. He was previously Professor and Chair of Art History at
The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively on
Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centu-
ries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and
aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick
Goltzius. In addition to monographs on Jerónimo Nadal’s Adnotationes
et meditations in Evangelia (2003–2007) and on scriptural illustration
in the 16th-century Low Countries (2009), his books include Shaping
the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s “Schilder-Boeck” (1991) and The
Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550–1625 (2009).
He is co-editor of Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medie-
val and Early Modern Europe (2008), among other volumes. He is cur-
rently writing a study of Petrus Canisius’s De Maria Virgine and Marian
image-theory around 1600.
Lee Palmer Wandel is Professor of History, Religious Studies, and
Visual Culture, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the
author of Always Among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli’s Zurich (1990),
Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Stras-
bourg, and Basel (1994), and The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation
and Liturgy (2006). Currently she is working on two books, Rethinking
the Reformation for Cambridge University Press and Catechisms and the
Construction of Religion in the Reformation.