Illustration and Ornamentation in the Iberian Book World, 1450-1800

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44713-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 91, 510 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

In the early modern Iberian book world, as in the European book world more broadly, most works issuing from the presses contained some form of ornamentation. The nineteen contributions presented here cast light on these visual elements—on the production and ownership of printers’ materials, and on the frequency with which these materials were exchanged and shared. A third of all items printed in the early modern Iberian world carried no imprint at all; for these items, woodblocks and engravings can assist scholars seeking to identify their place of origin or their date of publication. As importantly, decoration and illustration in early print can also reveal much about the history of the graphic arts and evolving forms of cultural representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkinson, Alexander Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Buchgestaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Alexander S. Wilkinson

PART I

Research Infrastructure

1. From Bibliography to Data Analytics, Convolutional Neural Networks and Image Recognition: The Journey of the Iberian Books Project

Alexander S. Wilkinson

2. An Introduction to the Database Printers’ Devices of the University of Barcelona

Neus Verger Arce

PART II

Printers’ Materials

3. Illustrating and Publishing on the Hand-Press in Spain from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: The Ownership of Icono-Typographic Resources

Manuel-José Pedraza-Gracia

4. Woodcuts and Engravings in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Sources: a Starting-Point

Helena Carvajal González

5. The Woodblocks and Initial Capitals used by Juan de Cánova in Salamanca (1553–1569)

Isabel Cristina Díez Ménguez

6. Engraved and Inhabited Initials used in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Printing

Guadalupe Rodríguez Domínguez

PART III

Describing Type and Identifying Printers

7. The Typefaces of Three Fifteenth-Century Castilian Printers: A Comparative Study

Benito Rial-Costas

8. Typography and illustration in fifteenth-century Salamanca: the Porras press

María Eugenia López Varea

9. Chipped Old Blocks and Battered Old Type: Piracy in Golden-Age Spain

Don W. Cruickshank

PART IV

Illustrations

10. Visual Culture in the Hagiographies and Sacred Biographies of Early Modern Portugal

Paula Almeida Mendes

11. Book Illustration in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: the First Editions of the Siete Sabios de Roma

Nuria Aranda García

12. Ornamentation in the Spanish editions of the Crónica Troyana, 1490-1587

María Sanz Julián

13. A Sixteenth Century Board Game by João de Barros

Celeste Pedro

14. Writ Large: Printing, Painting and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century America

Thomas Cummins

15. Illustration and Ornamentation in the Works of Luke Wadding, Seventeenth-Century Historian and Theologian

Benjamin Hazard

16. Illustrating a Family. The Printing Press and Political Issues in the Ritratti della Prosapia et Heroi Moncadi nella Sicilia

Domenico Ciccarello

17. A Vision of Political Discourse in Goa c.1659, and Two Episodes in the Circulation of Illustrated Manuscripts

Jeremy Roe & Ângela Barreto-Xavier

18. Illustrating Golden Age Spanish Drama

Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo

19. Spanish Book Illustration and the Hijos de la Academia

Kelly Donahue-Wallace

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander S. Wilkinson, Ph.D. (2002, University of St Andrews), is a Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of the European book, and directed the bibliographical project Iberian Books (Brill, 2010 & 2015).