Gateways to the Book : Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Chapter 1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces - Introduction -- Part 1 The Culture of the Frontispiece -- Chapter 2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title Pages -- Chapter 3 Minerva in the Prints...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boston : BRILL,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Intersections Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Books Frontispiece Title pages Illustration of books Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (635 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Chapter 1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces - Introduction -- Part 1 The Culture of the Frontispiece -- Chapter 2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title Pages -- Chapter 3 Minerva in the Printshop: Publisher's Advertising in Frontispieces and the Media Presence of Early Modern Printer-Publishers -- Chapter 4 The Frontispiece Portrait and Its Critics: Visual and Verbal Tactics for Undermining the Social Productivity of Printed Portraits in Early Modern Scholarly Culture -- Part 2 The Frontispiece between Art and Science -- Chapter 5 The Poetological Frontispiece in 17th-Century German Poetry -- Chapter 6 Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & -- Co.: Frontispieces and Title Woodcuts in Music Theory Prints and Musical Textbooks around 1500 -- Chapter 7 Visualising the Constitution of Art: Frontispieces in "Kunstliteratur" in the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 8 When Mars Meets Euclid: The Relationship between War and Mathematical Sciences in Frontispieces of Fortification Treatises -- Chapter 9 Travels towards Humankind's Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th-18th Centuries -- Part 3 Case Studies -- Chapter 10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century Basel -- Chapter 11 Rubens's Legacy in Book Design -- Chapter 12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht's Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists' Education in Anatomy -- Chapter 13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii -- Chapter 14 Juan Ricci de Guevara's Introduction of Wise Painting -- Chapter 15 The Architectural Folios of Jeremias Wolff. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (635 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004464520 9004464522 9789004459328 9004459324 |