Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography.
Volkmann, Ludwig.
Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (331 pages) - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.281 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Author's Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Hieroglyphics of the Italian Humanists -- Excursus 1: On the Images in the Gran Chiostro of San Giustina and those in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- Chapter 2 Emblematics and Its Derivatives: Imprese and Devices -- Excursus 2: On the Origin of Alciato's Emblemata -- Excursus 3: On Hoes -- Chapter 3 Hieroglyphics North of the Alps -- Excursus 4: On the Origin of Aldus' Printers Mark and the Motto festina lente -- Excursus 5: On the Symbola of Pythagoras and Alciato's Emblem "Do not sit on a bushel" -- Excursus 6: Philosophia comite regredimur -- Chapter 4 Resonances from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Appendix: Hieroglyphs and Emblems in Printers and Publishers Marks (Signeten) -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Hieroglyphs, Emblems and Devices.
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.
9789004367593
Emblems-History-16th century.
Hieroglyphics-History-16th century.
Art, Renaissance-Themes, motives.
Electronic books.
N7740 .V655 2018
709.024
Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (331 pages) - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.281 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Author's Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Hieroglyphics of the Italian Humanists -- Excursus 1: On the Images in the Gran Chiostro of San Giustina and those in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- Chapter 2 Emblematics and Its Derivatives: Imprese and Devices -- Excursus 2: On the Origin of Alciato's Emblemata -- Excursus 3: On Hoes -- Chapter 3 Hieroglyphics North of the Alps -- Excursus 4: On the Origin of Aldus' Printers Mark and the Motto festina lente -- Excursus 5: On the Symbola of Pythagoras and Alciato's Emblem "Do not sit on a bushel" -- Excursus 6: Philosophia comite regredimur -- Chapter 4 Resonances from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Appendix: Hieroglyphs and Emblems in Printers and Publishers Marks (Signeten) -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Hieroglyphs, Emblems and Devices.
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.
9789004367593
Emblems-History-16th century.
Hieroglyphics-History-16th century.
Art, Renaissance-Themes, motives.
Electronic books.
N7740 .V655 2018
709.024