Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: the Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture Walter S. Melion Part 1 Materials, Artifice, and Agencies of the Hand2 Print, Paint, and the Play of Media in Parisian Prayerbooks at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Elliott D. Wise 3 "Mercy, Sweetness, and Christ's Flesh: Hendrick Goltzius's Ecce Homo of 1607" Walter S. Melion 4 The Colour Blotch as Pathosformula: Trace and Gesture in Early Modern Art Yannis Hadjinicolaou 5 Signature and Surface in the Paintings of Saenredam Christopher D.M. Atkins 6 Painterly Caresses: the Groom, the Mistress, and the Horse in Ter Borch's Horse Stable Michael Zell 7 The schilderachtig Signature of Vermeer's Little Street Reindert Falkenburg Part 2 Thinking and Picturing8 From the Mental Cell to the Composition of Place: Carthusian and Jesuit Mental Image-Making Thor-Oona Pignarre Altermatt 9 "The Mind of the Frontispiece": Invitations to Enter Self-Referential Mnemonic Spaces in English Renaissance Book Illustrations William E. Engel 10 Last Judgement Paintings within the Courtroom: a Visual Equiparation? Valérie Hayaert 11 Joos van Craesbeeck's Temptation of Saint Anthony Michel Weemans 12 A Space for Experimental Thinking: Samuel van Hoogstraten's Large Perspective Paintings and the Foundation of the Royal Society Hanneke Grootenboer Part 3 Self-Reflexive Image-Making13 Gothic Turns In on Itself: Anton Pilgram's Vienna Pulpit Ethan Matt Kavaler 14 A Prometheus with the Burin: Teycken - const as an Originary Art in Goltzius's Allegory of Sight Jun P. Nakamura 15 Cut with a Bridal Knife: Clara Peeters, Artistic Agency and the Bubbles of Being Aneta Georgievska-Shine 16 Indiscreet Gaze: Vermeer's Early Experiments with Boundary Devices in Dresden's Girl Reading a Letter Robert Fucci 17 The Secrets of the Black Commentator Angela Vanhaelen Part 4 Spectators at the Threshold18 Albrecht Altdorfer's Extravagant Devices Itay Sapir 19 The Affect of Horror and Its Mitigations: on the Flaying of Marsyas James Clifton 20 Paths in Netherlandish Landscape Joanna Woodall 21 Alberti's "Open Window", Diderot's "Fourth Wall", and the Threshold between Painting and the Spectator in Dutch Art Lizzie Marx 22 Portraits, Prints and Pictorial Agency in Lima's Jesuit Church Stephanie Porras 23 Jesuit Liminality Steffen Zierholz Part 5 Emblematic Intertexts24 What You See Is Not What You Get: Emblematic Composition and Lifelike Representation Tamar Cholcman 25 Seventeenth-Century Dutch Urban Values in the Mirror of Jacob Cats and Adriaen van de Venne Joanna Skubisz 26 The Cold Light of Truth: the Veritas Filia Temporis Theme in Imperial Sweden Simon McKeown Index.