Price loading...

Companion to Emblem Studies (AMS Studies in the Emblem): No. 20

Arts & Photography

Price data last checked 89 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Scholars in multiple disciplines now recognize the emblem as a significant expression of the cultural life of the Renaissance and the Baroque, reflecting a panoply of interests ranging from war to love, from religion to philosophy to politics, from the sciences to the occult, from social mores to encyclopedic knowledge, and from serious speculation to entertainment. Following Andrea Alciato's publication of the first emblem book in 1531, the form enjoyed its heyday in the seventeenth-century, appearing in speeches, sermons, and printed texts, but also in wall and ceiling decorations, jewelry, carvings, paintings, and other material expressions. Beyond this early boom, the emblem was again present in eighteenth-century title pages and frontispieces, and experienced twentieth-century manifestations during the ideological battles of both world wars and Quebec's attempt at secession from Canada. ""The Companion to Emblem Studies"" introduces the multiple forms that the emblem has taken through nearly five centuries of production, and offers an interdisciplinary and international assessment of the long history of this pervasive symbolic device. ""The Companion"" features essays on the emblem in the various countries that use those vernacular languages; on Alciato, the ""father and prince of emblems""; on bibliography and theory; on the Jesuit and Neo Latin emblems, which cut across national groupings; on flags and tournaments; and on emblems in recent material culture, logos, and advertisements. ""The Companion"" features 130 illustrations and concludes with a ""Selective Bibliography for Further Reading,"" which includes works written in western European languages and expands the volume's usefulness for researchers and students in the field.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0404637205
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 December 2006
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Companion to Emblem Studies (AMS Studies in the Emblem): No. 20

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Impresa Index to the Collections of Paradin, Giovio, Simeoni, Pittoni, Ruscelli, Contile, Camilli, Capaccio, Bargagli, and Typotius (AMS Studies in the Emblem): v. 21

Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies: 14

Studies in Imagery I: Text and Images: 1

A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume I: Earlier Renaissance: 1

Emblemata: Handbuch zur Sinnbildkunst des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts

A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature: Volume II: Later Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassicism: 2

The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510-1610: 295/36 (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 295/36)

Tributes to Jonathan J.G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture

Der Wappenbrief: Ein Kompendium. 2 Bände

Diccionario de Los Simbolos (fuera de colección)

An Annotated Bibliography of the Holy Roman Empire (Bibliographies and Indexes in World History)

What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?: Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences: 331 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 331)

What Does it Mean to be an Empiricist?: Empiricisms in Eighteenth Century Sciences: 331 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 331)

Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study (Italian and Italian American Studies)

Women in Italy, 1945–1960: An Interdisciplinary Study (Italian and Italian American Studies)

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture: 95 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

University of Toronto Press - Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books

Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography (2 Volume Set)

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

Ancient Egyptian Rituals and Symbolism: Esoterica of Egypt History - Pharaohs, Gods, Its Religious Books, Hieroglyphs, Magic & Mythology: Mitzraim's ... of the Kings (Esoteric Religious Studies)

The French Republic: History, Values, Debates

The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia

Visualizing the Text: From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature