List of Figures Acknowledgements 1 A Distinctive Kind of History Painting 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Dialogue, Disputation, and Prosopopoeia 1.3 The Rhetoricization of Culture and the Development of Rhetorical Habitus 1.4 Humanism, Virtue Ethics, and the Power of Rhetoric 1.5 The Convivium Tradition 1.6 Classical Rhetoric in a Contemporary and Vernacular Guise 1.7 The Continuity between Zinnespelen and Biblical-Historical Plays 1.

8 A Contribution to the Literature 1.9 Goltzius, Lastman, and the Rhetoricians 1.10 Conclusion2 The Story of Susanna and the Elders 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Narrative 2.3 The Pictorial Tradition 2.4 The Rhetoricians' Play Tspeel van Susanna 2.5 Goltzius's Painting of 1607 2.

6 Goltzius's Painting of 1615 2.7 Lastman's Painting of 1614 2.8 Conclusion3 The Story of Lot and his Daughters 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Narrative 3.3 The Pictorial Tradition 3.4 The Rhetoricians' Play Abraham en Loth 3.5 Goltzius's Painting of 1616 3.

6 Conclusion4 The Story of Tobit and Tobias 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Elocutio 4.3 The Narrative 4.4 The Pictorial Tradition 4.5 The Rhetoricians' Play De Oude Tobijas 4.6 Pieter Lastman's Paintings of the Book of Tobit 4.7 Conclusion5 The Story of Paul and Barnabas's Ministry in Lystra 5.

1 Introduction 5.2 Peripeteia 5.3 The Narrative 5.4 The Pictorial Tradition 5.5 The Rhetoricians' Play Paulus ende Barnabas 5.6 Pieter Lastman's Paintings of 1614 and 1617 5.7 Conclusion6 Conclusion Bibliography Index.