Theo D'haen

INTRODUCTION: THE YEAR 88 1988 was a remarkable year for anniversaries, centenaries, bi-, ter-and quatercentenaries, as we discovered as the year progressed and more people, other events and different causes turned up to be remembered — from the Armada in 1588 to the invention of the pneumatic...

INTRODUCTION Ever since the pioneering work of Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich, and particularly since the publication of Mario Praz's Mnemosyne and Jean Hagstrum's The Sister Arts, scholarly interest in the interrelation between the verbal and the visual arts has steadily increased. In recent...