Walter S. Melion

Walter S. Melion

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History

Art History Department
Emory University
139 Carlos Hall
Atlanta, GA 30322

404.727.2599

walter.melion@emory.edu

Curriculum Vitae

WALTER S. MELION (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988)

Research Interests

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at
Emory University in Atlanta, where he has taught since 2004 and
currently chairs the Art History Department. 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 centuries, 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 meditationes 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’ (Chicago: 1991) and The Meditative
Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550–1625 (Philadelphia:
2009). He is co-editor of Image and Imagination of the Religious
Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: 2008),
Early Modern Eyes (Leiden: 2010), Meditatio—Refashioning the
Self: Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual
Culture (Leiden: 2010), The Authority of the Word: Reflecting
on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700 (Leiden: 2011), and
Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700,
amongst other volumes. He was elected Foreign Member
of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Selected Publications

Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s “Schilder-Boeck” (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991)

The Art of Vision in Jerome Nadal’s “Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia,” monographic study introducing Volume I: The Infancy Narratives, part of the three-volume series, Jerome Nadal, “Annotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels,” trans. F. Homann, S.J. (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2003)

“Mortis illius imagines ut vitae: The Image of the Glorified Christ in Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia,” in F. Homann, S.J., ed. and trans., Jerome Nadal, “Annotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels,” Volume III: The Resurrection Narratives (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2005): 1-32

“Benedictus Arias Montanus and the Virtual Studio as a Meditative Place,” in M. Cole and M. Pardo, eds., Inventions of the Studio: Renaissance to Romanticism (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005): 73-107, 196-201

Current Projects

"'Scripture for the Eyes': Bible Illustration in the Netherlands, 1500-1600"

Exhibition and catalogue for the Museum of Biblical Art and Michael C. Carlos Museum. The exhibition opens at MoBiA in June 2009, at the Carlos Museum in October 2009.

"The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Word and Image in Northern Europe, 1400-1700"

Lovis Corinth Colloquia 3. Twenty European and American participants: Celeste Brusati (Ann Arbor), Peter van der Coelen (Rotterdam), Maarten Delbeke (Ghent), Karl Enenkel (Leiden), Reindert Falkenburg (NYU-Abu Dhabi), Wim Francois (Leuven), Jan de Jong (Groningen), Thomas Lentes (Muenster), Walter Melion (Atlanta), Birgit Ulrike Muench (Trier), Carolyn Muessig (Bristol), Colette Nativel (Paris), Wolfgang Neuber (Berlin), Felipe Pereda (Madrid), Bart Ramakers (Groningen), Kathryn Rudy (The Hague), Els Stronks (Utrecht), Achim Timmermann (Ann Arbor), Annite Traninger (Berlin), Michel Weemans (Paris), and Geert Warnar (Leiden).

Books:

The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550-1625 (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, forthcoming)

Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. R. Falkenburg and W. Melion (proceedings of the 2003 Lovis Corinth Symposium) (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, forthcoming)

Articles:

“‘Nor my praise to graven images’: Divine Artifice and the Heart’s Idols in Georg Mack the Elder’s Painted Print of The Trinity,” in The Renaissance Idol, eds. M. Cole and R. Zorach (London: Ashgate Press, forthcoming)

“The Image of the Sacrificial Christ in Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia,” in F. Homann, S.J., ed. and trans., Jerome Nadal, “Annotations and Meditations on the Liturgical Gospels,” Volume II: The Passion Narratives (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, forthcoming)

Symposia:

“Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700,” Second Lovis Corinth Symposium, co-organizers R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni-Bruslé, and W. Melion (Atlanta, October 12-14, 2006)