In The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis, Paolo Berdini offers a new and provocative reevaluation of a selected group of paintings, drawings, and religious objects by one of the inventive artists of the late Italian Renaissance. This study also challenges traditional iconograph analysis, particularly the word-image paradigm celebrated in much art history. Utilizing both the methods of hermeneutics and phenomenology, The Religous Art of Jacopo Bassano introduces a new model for understanding the painter as a reader, and for coming to terms with visual exegesis.