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Book Emblemata Hispanica

Download or read book Emblemata Hispanica written by Pedro F. Campa and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emblem books--books containing pictorial representations whose symbolic meaning is expressed in words--were produced in great quantities and in numerous languages during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Because literary critics and art historians increasingly recognize the importance of the emblem in Renaissance and Baroque studies, this book answers the need for a bibliography listing the locations of all known emblem books in Spanish, as well as those translated into Spanish, written by Spaniards in other languages, and polyglot editions that contain a Spanish text. Covered in this bibliography are all emblem books published from the beginning to the end of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as a wide range of secondary sources on relevant subjects, among them mythography, paradoxography, numismatics, fetes, funerals, proverbs, apothegms, antiquarianism, collecting, and pertinent studies in art history and architecture. Providing call numbers for library locations, information on facsimile reprints, and microform editions, the work is extensively indexed--by date and place of publication, by printers and booksellers, by authors and artists, and by dedicatees, as well as by subject.

Book Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts

Download or read book Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts written by Sandra Sider and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography provides descriptions of 432 manuscripts from Europe and the United States, of which 341 contain visual imagery in various media. The manuscripts feature tripartite emblems proper, as well as festivity books, hieroglyphic texts, proto-emblematic material, allegories, triumphs, symbolic source books, schemata, devotional handbooks, and libri amicorum with emblematic imagery.

Book The Emblem

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  • Author : John Manning
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2004-04-04
  • ISBN : 1861895925
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Emblem written by John Manning and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2004-04-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Seventeenth century French Emblem

Download or read book The Seventeenth century French Emblem written by Alison Saunders and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2000 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spectacle and Topophilia

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  • Author : David R. Castillo
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0826518168
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Spectacle and Topophilia written by David R. Castillo and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant places and spaces, from Granada and Catalonia to Buenos Aires and the Chicago Columbian Exposition

Book The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography written by Colum Hourihane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Roland Greene and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.

Book Mosaics of Meaning

Download or read book Mosaics of Meaning written by Luís Gomes and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines, in English, the role of emblems in the Portuguese-speaking world, their distinctive qualities and their links with the wider European tradition. Luis Gomes brings together studies ranging over a wide corpus of material, in both Portugal and Brazil, from manuscripts to printed books to the famous azulejos."

Book The Persistence of Presence

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  • Author : Bradley J. Nelson
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0802099777
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Persistence of Presence written by Bradley J. Nelson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period. As representations of ideas and ideals, emblems are allegories produced in a particular place and time, and their study can shed light on the central cultural and political activities of an era. Bradley J. Nelson argues that the emblem was a primary indicator of the social and political functions of diverse literary practices in early modern Spain, from theatre to epic prose. Furthermore, the disintegration of a unified medieval world view left many seeking the kinds of deep knowledge that could be accessed through symbolic pictures, increasing their cultural significance. In this detailed examination of emblem books, sacred and secular theatre, and Cervantes' critique of baroque allegory in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, Nelson connects the early history of emblematics with the drive towards cultural and political hegemony in Counter-Reformation Spain.

Book Emblem Scholarship

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  • Author : Peter Maurice Daly
  • Publisher : Brepols Publishers
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Emblem Scholarship written by Peter Maurice Daly and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Peter M. Daly, Jack Hopper, Daniel S. Russell, A Tribute to Gabriel Hornstein Peter M. Daly, Introduction Michael Bath, Christopher Harvey's School of the Heart Antonio Bernat Vistarini and John T. Cull, On the Trail of Hispanic Emblem Studies Pedro F. Campa, The Space between Heraldry and the Emblem: the Case for Spain Peter M. Daly, The Pelican-in-her-Piety G. Richard Dimler, S. J., Mendo's Principe perfecto: A Historical and Textual Analysis of Documento XX David Graham, Emblema multiplex: Towards a Typology of Emblematic Forms, Structures and Functions Sabine Modersheim, The Emblem in Architecture Dietmar Peil, Tradition and Error. On Mistakes and Variants: Problems in the Reception of Emblems Mary V. Silcox, 'A Manifest Shew of All Coloured Abuses': Stephen Batman's A Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation as an Emblem Book Alan Young, Sir John Tenniel's Emblematic Shakespeare Cartoons for Punc

Book Arts of Perception

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  • Author : Jeremy Robbins
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-05-13
  • ISBN : 1134708610
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Arts of Perception written by Jeremy Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra Fajardo, López de Vega, and Sor Juana. Reading these figures in the context of European thought and the new science, and philosophy, the study considers how they developed various ‘arts of perception’ - complex perceptual strategies designed to overcome and exploit epistemic problems to enable an individual to act effectively in the moral, political, social or religious sphere. The study takes as its subject the distinctive epistemological mentality behind such ‘arts of perception’. This mentality was fostered by the creative interaction of scepticism and Stoicism, and found expression in the key concepts ser/parecer and engaño/desengaño. The work traces the emergence, development, and impact of these concepts on Spanish thought and culture. As well as offering new interpretations of specific major figures, Arts of Perception offers an interpretation of the mentality of an entire culture as it made the fraught transition to intellectual modernity. As such it ranges over numerous discourses and formative contexts and provides a wealth of new material which will be of use to all those seeking to understand and interpret the literature, culture and thought of Golden Age Spain. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Book Iberian Books Volumes II   III   Libros Ib  ricos Vol  menes II y III  2 vols

Download or read book Iberian Books Volumes II III Libros Ib ricos Vol menes II y III 2 vols written by Alexander Samuel Wilkinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 2646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iberian Books II & III offer an indispensable foundational listing of all books published in Spain, Portugal and the New World in the first half of the seventeenth century. They record information on 45,000 items, surviving in 215,000 copies worldwide. Iberian Books II & III ofrece registro de lo publicado en España, Portugal y el Nuevo Mundo, o en español o portugués en otros lugares, entre 1601 y 1650. Recoge 45.000 impresos conservados en 215.000 ejemplares preservados en 1.800 colecciones.

Book Catholicism  Controversy and the English Literary Imagination  1558   1660

Download or read book Catholicism Controversy and the English Literary Imagination 1558 1660 written by Alison Shell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton, those whose presence in the canon has been more fitful, and many who have escaped the attention of literary critics. Among the themes to emerge are the anti-Catholic imagery of revenge tragedy and the definitive contribution made by Southwell and Crashaw to the post-Reformation revival of religious verse in England. Alison Shell offers a fascinating exploration of the rhetorical stratagems by which Catholics sought to demonstrate simultaneous loyalties to the monarch and to their religion, and of the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered.

Book Colonial Saints

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  • Author : Allan Greer
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-12-22
  • ISBN : 1136706291
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Colonial Saints written by Allan Greer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays examine how New World spirits transformed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love transfigured into the Virgin Mary - as well as the implications of the canonization of the first American saint. Colonial Saints illustrates the complex and intimate connections among confessional life writing, canonization, and the practices of the Inquisition. There was a dynamic exchange involving local agendas, the courts in Spain and France, and, of course, Rome. This bold collection clearly shows the interplay between slavery and spirituality, conversion and control, and the links between the sacred and the political.

Book Emblematica

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  • Author : A M S Press, Incorporated
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2005-07
  • ISBN : 9780404647643
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Emblematica written by A M S Press, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Law  Constitutionalism  Reason of State  and War

Download or read book Natural Law Constitutionalism Reason of State and War written by J. A. Fernández-Santamaría and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Reason of State, and War: Counter-Reformation Spanish Political Thought (Volumes I and II) aims at understanding how Spanish thinkers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries approached the emerging institution of the state. Both volumes are divided evenly into four distinct but related parts that cover the Spaniards' central concerns. In the first part, a fundamental question is asked: Is the state a natural institution? In the second, the theme is determining the best form of government. The third part is concerned with the imperative need to define the ethical boundaries beyond which the state must not trespass. Finally, the fourth part examines the question of war as an instrument of policy.

Book Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture

Download or read book Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture written by Daniel Russell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.