A Book of Emblems

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786418079
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis A Book of Emblems by : Andrea Alciati

Download or read book A Book of Emblems written by Andrea Alciati and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Alciati's Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was a collection of emblems, each consisting of a motto or proverb, a typically enigmatic illustration, and a short explanation. Most of the emblems had symbolic and moral applications. Scholars depended on Alciati's book to interpret contemporary art and literature, while writers and artists turned to it to invest their work with an understood didactic sense. This new edition of the Emblematum Liber includes the original Latin texts, highly readable English translations, and the illustrations belonging to each of the 212 emblems. The editor's introduction explains both the importance and the cultural contexts of Alciati's book, as well as its innumerable artistic applications. For instance, close study of the emblems reveals--to cite only two examples--why statues of lions are traditionally placed before government buildings, and what underlying political message was conveyed by innumerable equestrian portraits during the Baroque era. The collection includes as an appendix the formerly suppressed emblem, "Adversus Naturam Peccantes," accompanied by a translation of the learned commentary applied to it by Johann Thuilius in 1612. An extensive bibliography points the student to scholarly research specifically dealing with artistic applications of Alciati's emblems. Altogether, this new edition of Alciati's seminal work is an essential tool for modern students of the liberal arts.

The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004387250
Total Pages : 499 pages
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Book Synopsis The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610 by : Karl A.E. Enenkel

Download or read book The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610 written by Karl A.E. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. It demonstrates that the “father of emblematics” had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520. The study sheds light on the early development of the Latin emblem book 1531–1610, with special emphasis on the invention of the emblematic commentary, on natural history, and on advanced methods of conveying emblematic knowledge, from Junius to Vaenius.

Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography

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ISBN 13 : 9789004360938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography by : Ludwig Volkmann

Download or read book Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography written by Ludwig Volkmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Volkmann's Bilderschriften der Renaissance, the pioneering review of the influence of the hieroglyph on Renaissance culture, focused on the literature of emblem and device in Germany and France.

Emblems of Desire

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812236941
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (369 download)

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Book Synopsis Emblems of Desire by : Maurice Scève

Download or read book Emblems of Desire written by Maurice Scève and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducted and annotated by the prize-winning translator Richard Sieburth, this bilingual selection from Scève's Délie are love poems for the intellectual.

Joannes Sambucus And The Learned Image

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004138668
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Joannes Sambucus And The Learned Image by : Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Download or read book Joannes Sambucus And The Learned Image written by Arnoud S. Q. Visser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first full study of Sambucus' influential Neo-Latin emblem book. By analysing individual emblems and the historical contexts in which they were shaped, a new picture emerges of the use of the emblem for Renaissance humanists.

American Hieroglyphics

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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 142142116X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis American Hieroglyphics by : John T. Irwin

Download or read book American Hieroglyphics written by John T. Irwin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the discovery of the Rosetta Stone led to new ways of thinking about language: “A brilliant new interpretation of major 19th-century American writers.” —J. Hillis Miller The discovery of the Rosetta Stone and the subsequent decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century American writers and provided a focal point for their speculations on the relationships between sign, symbol, language, and meaning. Through fresh readings of classic works by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, John T. Irwin’s American Hieroglyphics examines the symbolic mode associated with the pictographs. Irwin demonstrates how American Symbolist literature of the period was motivated by what he calls “hieroglyphic doubling,” the use of pictographic expression as a medium of both expression and interpretation. Along the way, he touches upon a wide range of topics that fascinated people of the day, including the journey to the source of the Nile and ideas about the origin of language.

Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171010
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art by : Simona Cohen

Download or read book Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art written by Simona Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between medieval animal symbolism and the iconography of animals in the Renaissance has scarcely been studied. Filling a gap in this significant field of Renaissance culture, in general, and its art, in particular, this book demonstrates the continuity and tenacity of medieval animal interpretations and symbolism, disguised under the veil of genre, religious or mythological narrative and scientific naturalism. An extensive introduction, dealing with relevant medieval and early Renaissance sources, is followed by a series of case studies that illustrate ways in which Renaissance artists revived conventional animal imagery in unprecedented contexts, investing them with new meanings, on a social, political, ethical, religious or psychological level, often by applying exegetical methodology in creating multiple semantic and iconographic levels.Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 2

Emblems in Scotland

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364064
Total Pages : 374 pages
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Book Synopsis Emblems in Scotland by : Michael Bath

Download or read book Emblems in Scotland written by Michael Bath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crowns. Emblems are enigmas, and successive chapters ask for instance: Why does a late-medieval rood-screen show a jester at the Crucifixion? Why did Elizabeth I send Mary Queen of Scots tapestries showing the power of women to build a feminist City of God? Why did a presbyterian minister of Stirling decorate his manse with hieroglyphics? And why in the twentieth-century did Ian Hamilton Finlay publish a collection of Heroic Emblems?

The Secret Language of the Renaissance

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Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781844833221
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (332 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret Language of the Renaissance by : Richard Stemp

Download or read book The Secret Language of the Renaissance written by Richard Stemp and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificently illustrated throughout, and with a six-color gold-foil cover, this remarkable book provides an all-encompassing survey of the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance.

Emblems and the Natural World

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004347070
Total Pages : 700 pages
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Book Synopsis Emblems and the Natural World by : Paul J. Smith

Download or read book Emblems and the Natural World written by Paul J. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.

Emblemata Sacra

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Publisher : St. Joseph's University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Emblemata Sacra by : Ralph Dekoninck (Historien de l'art.)

Download or read book Emblemata Sacra written by Ralph Dekoninck (Historien de l'art.) and published by St. Joseph's University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp's previously unpublished study of La vie symbolique du bienheureux Francois de Sales (1664) of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnes Guiderdoni-Brusle that updates and amplifies Stopp's work, and a facsimile of Gambart's emblem book. This book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), and written for the Sisters of the Visitation monastery of Faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris, where Gambart, a Vincentian priest, served as chaplain for over thirty years. It was published in preparation for Francis's canonization in 1665." "Stopp's study offers an English translation of the key observations made by Gambart about each of the fifty-two emblems, while the facsimile makes available Gambarts original French text. Moreover, the facsimile is reproduced in color in order to convey the tonal richness of the original emblems."--BOOK JACKET.

Emblemata

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Book Synopsis Emblemata by : Andrea Alciati

Download or read book Emblemata written by Andrea Alciati and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognition of the great importance in Renaissance culture of the versatile and complex form of the emblem is increasingly widespread. This series aims to satisfy the needs of those who require access to texts in an edition as close to the original as possible.

A New Light on the Renaissance Displayed in Contemporary Emblems

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Publisher : London Dent 1909.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis A New Light on the Renaissance Displayed in Contemporary Emblems by : Harold Bayley

Download or read book A New Light on the Renaissance Displayed in Contemporary Emblems written by Harold Bayley and published by London Dent 1909.. This book was released on 1909 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Emblemes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
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Book Synopsis Emblemes by : Francis Quarles

Download or read book Emblemes written by Francis Quarles and published by . This book was released on 1660 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The ‘Delie'

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107639743
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis The ‘Delie' by : Maurice Sceve

Download or read book The ‘Delie' written by Maurice Sceve and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Maurice Scève's 1544 poetic cycle Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu was prepared specifically for English-speaking students.

Emblems of Eloquence

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520919343
Total Pages : 407 pages
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Book Synopsis Emblems of Eloquence by : Wendy Heller

Download or read book Emblems of Eloquence written by Wendy Heller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe

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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe by : Alison Adams

Download or read book The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe written by Alison Adams and published by Brill. This book was released on 1992 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a cross-section of the contributions delivered at the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990. They illustrate the variety and range of the research currently being conducted, in many different countries, into the emblem tradition in Renaissance and Baroque Europe.