A collection of essays celebrating Mieke Bal, one of Europe’s scholars in art history and visual studies. With contributions by scholars in the fields of art history and visual studies who reflect on Mieke Bal’s writings and art practice, assessing her contribution and legacies. . .Themes include Bal’s ideas and concepts in the visual field, such as the theoretical object, preposterous history, narrativity, vision and the gaze, cultural memory, self-reflexivity - of the artist, the viewer, the scholar. The essays consider historical art (the Sistine chapel, Renaissance altar paintings, and watercolours) alongside more recent film, photography, graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and areas of visual interest often positioned outside the pages of art history.