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This chapter presents a list of color and oil paintings relevant to the discussion of the visual exegesis in biblical culture. The book Imago Exegetica: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700 explores the ramifications of visual exegesis for early modern interpreters of the Bible, the laity especially, examines the relation between artistic practice and biblical hemeneutics, gives thought to visual typology, focuses on exegetical emblems, and establishes relation between two exegetical functions: prefiguration and transfiguration.
Keywords: Bible; exegetical emblems; oil paintings; prefiguration; transfiguration; visual exegesis; visual typology