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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794387303321

Titolo

Landscape and the visual hermeneutics of place, 1500-1700 / / edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel, Walter S. Melion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44040-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Collana

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; ; Volume 75

Disciplina

700.46

Soggetti

Landscapes in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the Hermeneutic and Exegetical Potential of Landscapes -- Constructions of Identity : Landscapes and the Description of Reality -- Constructions of Artificial Landscapes : Gardens, Villegiatura, Ruins -- Constructions of Imaginary Landscapes.

Sommario/riassunto

"This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700. The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the description of place in image and/or text, more than merely inviting close viewing, was often seen to call for interpretation or, better, for the application of a method or principle of interpretation"--