Agnès Guiderdoni is research associate of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium) and professor of literature at the Université catholique de Louvain, where she is the co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Cultural Analysis (GEMCA). Originally a specialist of 17^th century French literature, she more particularly studies emblematic literature and the field of figurative representations (imago figurata).Among her publications: Emblemata sacra. The Rhetoric and Hermeneutics of Illustrated Sacred Discourse, R. Dekoninck et A. Guiderdoni (eds), Brepols, 2007 ; Aux limites de l’imitation. L’ut pictura poesis à l’épreuve de la matière, R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni et N. Kremer (eds), Rodopi, 2009 ; Ut pictura meditatio. The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700, R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni-Bruslé and W. Melion (eds), Brepols, 2012; Fictions sacrées. Esthétique et théologie durant le premier âge moderne, R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni & E. Granjon (eds), Leuven, Peeters (« Art and Religion »), 2012. A monography on Emblematics and Spirituality is in progress.