Riddle of Jael

Peter Scott Brown, Ph.D. (2004), Yale University, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Florida. He has published numerous articles on text-image problems, Biblical women, and religious iconography in medieval and early modern art.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPART 1 
The Riddle of Jael1 Jael under Erasure2 Jael in Medieval and Early Modern Art and ThoughtPART 2 
Transformations of Jael (1400–1550)3 Jan van Eyck and the Early Modern Re-imagination of Jael4 Albrecht Altdorfer’s Jael, the Power of Women, and Syphilis in Sixteenth-Century Print5 Lambert Lombard’s Jael, Poxied Penitents, and Northern HumanismPART 3 
Jael among the Haarlem Humanists (1550–1600)6 Maarten van Heemskerck and Dirck Coornhert’s Power of Women: A Pasquinade on the Perfectibility of the Imperfect Soul7 Maarten van Heemskerck and Hendrick Goltzius on Jael’s Nail and the Artist’s Hand8 Philips Galle and Hadrianus Junius’ Jael: A Biblical Circe and Her Eloquent RiddleEpilogueBibliographyIndex