Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Disciplina	002.094
Collana	Intersections (Boston, Mass.)
Soggetto topico	Books - Europe - History
ISBN	90-04-46452-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces - Introduction -- Gitta Bertram, Nils Büttner and Claus Zittel -- PART 1: The Culture of the Frontispiece -- 2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title Pages -- Gitta Bertram -- 3 Minerva in the Printshop: Publisher's Advertising in Frontispieces and the Media Presence of Early Modern Printer-Publishers -- Lea Hagedorn -- 4 The Frontispiece Portrait and Its Critics: Visual and Verbal Tactics for Undermining the Social Productivity of Printed Portraits in Early Modern Scholarly Culture -- Hole Rößler -- PART 2: The Frontispiece between Art and Science -- 5 The Poetological Frontispiece in 17th-Century German Poetry -- Claus Zittel -- 6 Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & Co.: Frontispieces and Title Woodcuts in Music Theory Prints and Musical Textbooks around 1500 -- Fabian Kolb -- 7 Visualising the Constitution of Art: Frontispieces in "Kunstliteratur" in the Early Modern Period -- Constanze Keilholz -- 8 When Mars Meets Euclid: The Relationship between War and Mathematical Sciences in Frontispieces of Fortification Treatises -- Delphine Schreuder -- 9 Travels towards Humankind's Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th-18th Centuries -- Cornel Zwierlein -- PART 3: Case Studies -- 10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century Basel -- Miranda L. Elston -- 11 Rubens's Legacy in Book Design -- Nils Büttner -- 12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht's Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists' Education in Anatomy -- Alice Zamboni -- 13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii -- Alison C. Fleming -- 14 Juan Ricci de Guevara's Introduction of Wise Painting -- Martijn van Beek -- 15 The Architectural Folios of Jeremias Wolff -- Daniel Fulco -- 16 Monumental Elements in Early 18th-Century Book Illustration: Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the Illustrated Editions of the Works of Edmund Waller -- Malcolm Baker -- Index Nominum.
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