Joannes Sambucus and the learned image [[electronic resource] ] : the use of the emblem in late-Renaissance humanism / / Arnoud S.Q. Visser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451058103321
• Autore: Visser A. S. Q (Arnoud S. Q.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-85953-9; 9786610859535; 1-4294-2700-0; 90-474-0539-0; 1-4337-0402-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Collana: Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 128
• Disciplina: 878/.0402
• Soggetti: Emblem books, Latin - History; Emblems in literature; Humanists - Hungary; Electronic books.; Hungary Intellectual life 16th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-287) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter One: The World of the Author / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter Two: The World of the Publisher / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter Three: Sambucus About the Emblem / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter Four. The Use of Dedications / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter Five: The Epigrams: Subject-Matter, Structure and Style / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter Six: The Uses of Classical Sources / A.S.Q. Visser -- Chapter Seven: Word and Image in Pictura and Epigram / A.S.Q. Visser -- Conclusion / A.S.Q. Visser -- Appendix One: Concordance to the Emblems / A.S.Q. Visser -- Appendix Two: List of Dedicatees / A.S.Q. Visser -- Appendix Three. Relations Between Epigram and Pictura / A.S.Q. Visser -- Select Bibliography / A.S.Q. Visser -- General Index / A.S.Q. Visser -- Index of Emblems / A.S.Q. Visser.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.