Aspects Of Renaissance And Baroque Symbol Theory 1500 1700

Author : Peter Maurice Daly,John Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015042475171

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Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque Symbol Theory, 1500-1700 by Peter Maurice Daly,John Manning Pdf

There is nothing under the sun which cannot provide material for the emblems. This collection of 14 essays aims to enliven the cultural cosmos of the Renaissance seen through the prism of the emblem, demonstrating what was readily apparent to the heirs of Alciato in 1687.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412233972

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An Introduction to the Symbolic Literature of the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simona Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004171015

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Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art by Simona Cohen Pdf

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

Author : Leah R. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108427722

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Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court by Leah R. Clark Pdf

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Author : Dr James Dougal Fleming
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409478683

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The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 by Dr James Dougal Fleming Pdf

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of knowledge-production. They further investigate the hermeneutic implications for the epistemological authority that tends, in modernity, still to be based on that standard. The Invention of Discovery, 1500–1700 is a set of attempts to think back behind discovery, considered as a decisive trope for modern knowledge.

Author : Arnoud S. Q. Visser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004138667

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Joannes Sambucus And The Learned Image by Arnoud S. Q. Visser Pdf

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.

Author : Jane Grogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351937870

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Exemplary Spenser by Jane Grogan Pdf

Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through the reading experience of the poem. Grogan's investigation shows how Spenser transacts the public life of the nation heuristically, prompting a reflective reading experience that compels engagement with other readers, other texts and other political communities. Negotiating between competing pedagogical traditions, she shows how Spenser's epic challenges the more conservative prevailing impulses of humanist pedagogy to espouse a radical didacticism capable of inventing a more active and responsible reader. To this end, Grogan examines a wide variety of Spenser's techniques and sources, including Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy and the powerful visually-couched epistemological paradigms of early modern culture, ekphrasis among them. Importantly, Grogan examines how Spenser's didactic poetics was crucially shaped by readings of the Greek historian Xenophon's Cyropaedia, a text and influence previously overlooked by critics. Grogan concludes by reading the last book of The Faerie Queene, the Legend of Courtesy, as an attempt to reconcile his own didactic sources and poetics with the more recent tastes of his contemporaries for a courtesy theory less concerned with "vertuous and gentle discipline". Returning to the early modern reading experience, Grogan shows the sophisticated intertextual dexterity that goes into reading Spenser, where Spenserian pedagogy lies not simply in the textual body of the poem, but also in the act of reading it.

Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315298368

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography by Colum Hourihane Pdf

Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened. This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695

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Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317146865

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Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe by William E. Engel Pdf

Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of early modern texts influenced their decisions about compositional practice, especially as it relates to public performance and the exigencies of publication. Engel's discussion of the narrative structure and emblematic aspects of Melville's Piazza Tales and Poe's "The Raven" serve as case studies that demonstrate the authors' debt to the past. Focusing principally on the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions of the Art of Memory and its relation to chiasmus, Engel avoids engaging in a simple account of what these authors read and incorporated into their own writings. Instead, through an examination of their predisposition toward an earlier model of pattern recognition, he offers fresh insight into the writers' understandings of mourning and loss, their use of allegory, and what they gained from their use of pseudonyms.

Author : John Manning
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781861895929

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The Emblem by John Manning Pdf

The emblem, an image accompanied by a motto and a verse or short prose passage, is both art and literature: in the emblem tradition, the image presents a story – often with pictorial symbols – and the verse below it drives home the picture-story's moral instruction. It is one of the most fascinating, and enduring, art forms in Western culture. John Manning's book charts the rise and evolution of the emblem from its earliest manifestations to its emergence as a genre in its own right in the sixteenth century, and then through its various reinventions to the present day. The seventeenth century saw the development of new emblematic forms and sub-genres, and the sharpening of the form for the purpose of social satire. When the Jesuits appropriated the emblem, producing enormous quantities of material, a further dimension of moral seriousness was introduced, alongside a concentration of emblematic "wit". The emblem later came to be directed increasingly at young people and children; in particular, William Blake adopted a fresh attitude towards ideas of the child and childishness. Since then, reprints of 17th-century emblem books have been produced with new plates, and writers and artists from Robert Louis Stevenson to Ian Hamilton Finlay have used emblems in new and subversive ways.

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477329351

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Descendants of Aztec Pictography by Elizabeth Hill Boone Pdf

In the aftermath of the sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of Mexico, Spanish friars and authorities partnered with indigenous rulers and savants to gather detailed information on Aztec history, religious beliefs, and culture. The pictorial books they created served the Spanish as aids to evangelization and governance, but their content came from the native intellectuals, painters, and writers who helped to create them. Examining the nine major surviving texts, preeminent Latin American art historian Elizabeth Hill Boone explores how indigenous artists and writers documented their ancestral culture. Analyzing the texts as one distinct corpus, Boone shows how they combined European and indigenous traditions of documentation and considers questions of motive, authorship, and audience. For Spanish authorities, she shows, the books revealed Aztec ideology and practice, while for the indigenous community, they preserved venerated ways of pictorial expression as well as rhetorical and linguistic features of ancient discourses. The first comparative analysis of these encyclopedias, Descendants of Aztec Pictography analyzes how the painted compilations embraced artistic traditions from both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199257620

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Death and Drama in Renaissance England by William E. Engel Pdf

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Author : George Puttenham
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501707414

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The Art of English Poesy by George Puttenham Pdf

George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into Elizabethan court culture, implicitly on display in the attitudes and values of the writer. His illustrative anecdotes enable us to watch European courtiers negotiating their social and political relationships with one another as well as with rulers and social inferiors. This new critical edition of The Art of English Poesy contains the first modernized and fully annotated edition of Puttenham's 1589 text; a substantial introductory essay by Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn; a comprehensive bibliography; several glossaries and appendixes; and an index. The editors' masterly essay introduces Puttenham to modern readers and situates The Art of English Poesy in the context of the rhetorical theory, poetics, and courtly conduct of its time. The introduction also includes a concise biography of Puttenham based on a variety of new and unfamiliar data: he married an older and much richer woman whom he badly mistreated; indulged habitually in a life of sexual predation; was repeatedly sued, arrested, and imprisoned; survived several supposed attempts on his life; and died, nearly indigent, in 1591. For scholars and students of the English Renaissance, the Cornell edition of The Art of English Poesy should prove the definitive edition of Puttenham's major work.

Author : Daniel Russell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442656031

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Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture by Daniel Russell Pdf

The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism, the emblematic sign forms a bridge between late medieval allegory and the Romantic metaphor. These intricate combinations of picture and text, where the picture completes the ellipses of an epigrammatic text, and where the text fixes the intention of the pictured signs, provide useful clues to the way pictures in general were read and textual descriptions visualized in early modern Europe. Daniel Russell demonstrates how the emblematic forms emerged from the way illustrations were used in late medieval French manuscript culture, how the forms were later disseminated in France, and how they functioned within early modern French culture and society. He also attempts to show how the guiding principles behind the composition of emblems influenced the production of courtly decoration, ceremony, and propaganda, as well as the composition of literary texts as different as Maurice Sc¦ve's Delie, Montaigne's Essais, and Du Bartas's Sepmaine.