ABSTRACT
First published in 1998. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature, and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures, and genres. Art historians now tend to study narrative themes depicted in works of art in relation to such subjects as gender and sexuality, politics and power, ownership and possession, ceremony and ritual, legitimacy and authority. The Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography reflects these new approaches by ordering the themes of various iconographic sources in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to these new emphases.Each handsomely illustrated entry discusses the major relevant iconographic narratives and the historical background of each theme. A list of selected works of art that accompanies each essay guides the reader to examples in art that depict the theme under discussion. Each essay includes a list of suggested reading that provides further sources of information about the themes. A general bibliography of reference books is listed separately and can be used in association with all the essays. With 119 entries written by 42 experts, the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography is an important reference work for art historians, students of art history, artists, and the general reader.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |535 pages
Volume 1
entry |6 pages
Abandonment
entry |10 pages
Abduction/Rape
entry |6 pages
Abundance
entry |10 pages
Adultery
entry |6 pages
Annunciation
entry |5 pages
Apocalypse
entry |5 pages
Apotheosis/Deification
entry |8 pages
Arms Raised
entry |9 pages
Artists/Art
entry |13 pages
Ascent/Descent
entry |6 pages
Automata
entry |5 pages
Avarice
entry |8 pages
Bacchanalia/Orgy
entry |6 pages
Baptism
entry |8 pages
Bath/Bathing
entry |8 pages
Beheading/Decapitation
entry |12 pages
Betrayal
entry |12 pages
Birth/Childbirth
entry |5 pages
Calumny
entry |9 pages
Caricature/Cartoon
entry |6 pages
Choice/Choosing
entry |7 pages
Comic
entry |10 pages
Communion
entry |10 pages
Crucifixion
entry |6 pages
Damned Souls
entry |7 pages
Dance/Dancers/Dancing
entry |7 pages
Dawn/Dawning
entry |13 pages
Death
entry |6 pages
Destruction of City
entry |8 pages
Devotion/Piety
entry |12 pages
Dreams/Visions
entry |12 pages
Drunkenness/Intoxication
entry |8 pages
Ecstasy
entry |6 pages
Envy
entry |6 pages
Evil Eye
entry |6 pages
Excess
entry |7 pages
Expulsion
entry |7 pages
Fame
entry |6 pages
Fatal Woman/Femme Fatale
entry |7 pages
Female Beauty and Adornment
entry |8 pages
Fools/Folly
entry |9 pages
Fortune
entry |9 pages
Funeral/Burial
entry |6 pages
Gaze
entry |10 pages
Grieving/Lamentation
entry |7 pages
Hair/Haircutting
entry |8 pages
Hanging
entry |6 pages
Harvesting
entry |6 pages
Hermaphrodite/ Androgyne
entry |9 pages
Honor/Honoring
entry |6 pages
Humors
entry |8 pages
Hunting/Hunter/Huntress
entry |10 pages
Imagination/Creativity
entry |14 pages
Journey/Flight
entry |6 pages
Judaism
entry |8 pages
Judgment
entry |6 pages
Justice
entry |6 pages
Kiss/Kissing
entry |8 pages
Labor/Trades/Occupations
entry |5 pages
Labyrinth/Maze
entry |8 pages
Laughter
entry |8 pages
Light I: The Lamp in the Niche
entry |8 pages
Light II: Divine, Natural, and Neon
entry |5 pages
Logos/Word
entry |10 pages
Love and Death
entry |7 pages
Luxury
letter |432 pages
Volume 2
entry |8 pages
Madness
entry |7 pages
Margins/Outsiders
entry |11 pages
Marriage/Betrothal
entry |8 pages
Martyrdom
entry |10 pages
Masks/Personae
entry |7 pages
Melancholy
entry |6 pages
Metamorphosis
entry |12 pages
Mirror/Reflection
entry |5 pages
Misfortune
entry |7 pages
Money
entry |6 pages
Months
entry |9 pages
Music
entry |12 pages
Naked/Nude
entry |8 pages
Night
entry |5 pages
Nightmare
entry |6 pages
Offering
entry |14 pages
Order/Chaos
entry |8 pages
Path/Road/Crossroads
entry |7 pages
Patronage
entry |6 pages
Peace
entry |9 pages
Peasantry
entry |8 pages
Penitence/Repentance
entry |6 pages
Physiognomy
entry |8 pages
Plague/Pestilence
entry |6 pages
Pointing/Indicating
entry |11 pages
Pregnancy
entry |8 pages
Protestantism
entry |6 pages
Reading
entry |9 pages
Sacrifice
entry |8 pages
Sanctuary
entry |7 pages
Seasons
entry |8 pages
Self-Portraits I: Men
entry |6 pages
Self-Portraits II: Women
entry |6 pages
Serpent's Bite
entry |9 pages
Shepherds/Shepherdesses
entry |6 pages
Shipwreck
entry |10 pages
Sin/Sinning
entry |7 pages
Sleep/Sleeping
entry |6 pages
Sport
entry |5 pages
Sublime
entry |6 pages
Temptation
entry |6 pages
Toilet Scenes
entry |6 pages
Upside Down
entry |9 pages
Vanity/Vanitas
entry |7 pages
Vices/Deadly Sins
entry |8 pages
Virgin/Virginity
entry |16 pages
Virtue/Virtues
entry |6 pages
Visiting/Visitation
entry |5 pages
Voyeurism
entry |6 pages
Whiteness
entry |5 pages
Widowhood
entry |10 pages
Witchcraft/Sorcery
entry |12 pages
Zodiac
