An investigation into how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700.

Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988), is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, where he also directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. He has published extensively on Northern art and art theory and on Jesuit image theory.
Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Ph.D. (1986) is Professor of Art History at Emory University, and President of the American Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, the body of scholars devoted to the study of stained glass. A medievalist, she has published extensively on stained glass and issues of patronage, as well as the Bayeux Embroidery.
Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), is the WARF Michael Baxandall and Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She has published extensively on the Reformation, including books on poor relief, iconoclasm, and the liturgy.