Hieroglyph, emblem, and Renaissance pictography / / by Ludwig Volkmann ; translated and edited by Robin Raybould.

Robin Raybould's Hieroglyph, Emblem and Renaissance Pictography is the first English translation of Ludwig Volkmann's Bilderschriften der Renaissance , the classic text which promoted the symbol as a defining cultural and literary characteristic of early modern Europe. Volkmann enumerates...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 281
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
German
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History v. 281.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 307 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Translator's Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • Author's Introduction
  • The Hieroglyphics of the Italian Humanists
  • Emblematics and Its Derivatives: Imprese and Devices
  • Hieroglyphics North of the Alps
  • Resonances from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • Appendix: Hieroglyphs and Emblems in Printers and Publishers Marks (Signeten)
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.