Author: George WitherPublisher:
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Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Collection of Emblemes
Author: George WitherA Book of Emblems
Author: Andrea AlciatiPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786418079
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
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.
A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne
Author: George WitherPublisher:
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Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Emblemes. (Hieroglyphikes of the life of Man.)
Author: Francis QuarlesThe Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610
Author: Karl A.E. EnenkelPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This study draws a new picture of the invention of the emblem book, and discusses the textual and pictorial means that were developed in order to transmit knowledge, from Alciato to Vaenius, with special emphasis on the emblem commentary and natural history.
A Collection of Emblemes
Author: George WitherPublisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne
Author: George WitherPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732662829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne by George Wither
A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne
Author: George WitherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Collection of Emblemes
Emblemata Sacra
Author: Ralph Dekoninck (Historien de l'art.)Publisher: St. Joseph's University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
"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.