Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image

The Use of the Emblem in Late-Renaissance Humanism
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13866-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Latin, Band 128, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

All those interested in Renaissance poetry and the reception of the classics, the relationship between word and image, humanism and the Republic of Letters, as well as book-historians and classicists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visser, Arnoud

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One. The World of the Author
Chapter Two. The World of the Publisher
Chapter Three. Sambucus about the Emblem
Chapter Four. The Use of Dedications
Chapter Five. The Epigrams: Subject-Matter, Structure and Style
Chapter Six. The Uses of Classical Sources
Chapter Seven. Word and Image in Pictura and Epigram

Conclusion

Appendix One. Concordance to the Emblems
Appendix Two. List of Dedicatees
Appendix Three. Relations between Epigram and Pictura

Select Bibliography
General Index
Index of Emblems

Über Autor(innen)

Arnoud S.Q. Visser, Ph.D. (2003), Leiden University, is a Leverhulme fellow in the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. He has published on Renaissance emblems and edited, together with Karl Enenkel, Mundus Emblematicus. Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books (2003).