Author: Frederick James Furnivall
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338549169X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author: Andrea Alciati
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786418079
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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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.

Author: Alison Saunders
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600031356
Category : Emblem books
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Francis Thynne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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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.

Author: Michael Maiers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781071854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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One of the finest alchemical emblem books and unique in its own right. Michael Maier's work is richly illustrated with original prints by M. Merian; each of the 50 emblems presented consists of a motto, print, epigram, and a three-part musical setting of the epigram, followed by an exposition of its meaning.

Author: Francis Quarles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblem books
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Maurice Sceve
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107639743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 523

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This edition of Maurice Scève's 1544 poetic cycle Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu was prepared specifically for English-speaking students.

Author: Geffrey Whitney
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487402116
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Alison Saunders
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600004527
Category : Emblem books, French
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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