Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224).
Contents
Visionary Experience Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Framing the Beyond: The Quest for a Definition; 2 Vision and Meta-language; 3 Visions and Paintings; 4 The Distant View; 5 The Making of a Painting; 6 Representations of the Mystical Eros; 7 The Seeing Body; By Way of a Conclusion: 21 Theses on the Representation of the Visionary Experience; References; Bibliography; List of Illustrations.
Summary
An original and lucid account of how Spanish painters of the 16th and 17th centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art.