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Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004367593
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance PictographyDDC classification:
  • 709.024
LOC classification:
  • N7740 .V655 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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