An investigation into how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700.

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Quid est sacramentum?: Introduction  Walter S. Melion Part 1: Representing the Sacraments 2 Counterfeiting the Eucharist in Late Medieval Life and Art  Aden Kumler 3 Vestments in the Mass  Lee Palmer Wandel 4 ‘In the Flesh a Mirror of Spiritual Blessings’: Calvin’s Defence of the Lord’s Supper as a Visual Accommodation  AnnMarie M. Bridges 5 ‘Mystery’ or ‘Sacrament’: Ephesians 5:32, the Sacrament of Marriage in Early Modern Biblical Scholarship, and Nicolas Poussin’s Visual Exegesis  Wim François 6 Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque Bavaria  Noria K. Litaker 7 Staging Sacramental Consolation in Vienna  Robert L. Kendrick Part 2: Sacramental Modes of Representation 8 Seeing beyond Signs: Allegorical Explanations of the Mass in Medieval Dutch Literature  Anna Dlabačová 9 Representing Architecture in the Altarpiece: Fictions, Strategies, and Mysteries  Elizabeth Carson Pastan 10 Orchestrating Polyphony at the Altar: Passion Altarpieces in Late Medieval France  Donna L. Sadler 11 God’s Design: Painting and Piety in the Vida of Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665)  Tanya J. Tiffany 12 Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: the Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Bruges  Elliott D. Wise and Matthew Havili 13 Anchoring the Appearance of the Sacred: the Abbot of Choisy & His Translation of the Imitatio Christi (1692)  Lars Cyril Nørgaard 14 Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci’s Christ and Mary Magdalene  Bronwen Wilson Part 3: Representing Divine Presence and the Mysteries of Faith 15 The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le Roi Tradition  Alexa Sand 16 Christ Child Creator  David S. Areford 17 Lady Scripture’s Sacred Commitments: Dialogic Understanding in Dutch Religious Literature of the Late Fifteenth Century  Geert Warnar 18 Coemeterium Schola: the Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David, S.J.’s Veridicus Christianus  Walter S. Melion 19 The Limits of ‘Mute Theology’: Charles Le Brun’s Lecture on Nicolas Poussin’s Ecstasy of Saint Paul Revisited  James Clifton 20 A Private Mystery: Looking at Philippe de Champaigne’s Annunciation for the Hôtel de Chavigny  Mette Birkedal Bruun Index Nominum