Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image: The Use of the Emblem in Late-Renaissance Humanism
A. S. Q. Visser
The emblem is one of the most remarkable literary inventions of Renaissance humanism. The symbolic imagery presented in these Neo-Latin emblem books constituted an important influence on many areas in early modern literature and art. This volume provides the first comprehensive study of Sambucus' influential Emblemata (first published by Christopher Plantin, Antwerp, 1564). It reconstructs the cultural-historical contexts in which it was produced, thus reconsidering the social and commercial functions of the humanist emblem. Accompanied by a detailed analysis of individual emblems, it takes into account the emblems' classical intertextuality and the relationship between word and image. This study shows how the emblematic practice can differ from contemporary symbol and emblem theories, which have often coloured modern interpretations of the genre.
الفئات:
عام:
2004
الناشر:
Brill
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
296
ISBN 10:
9004138668
ISBN 13:
9789004138667
سلسلة الكتب:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 128
ملف:
PDF, 6.69 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2004