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Alciato's Emblem
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Alciato’s Emblem
AMS Press
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Andrea Alciato
Ars Memorativa
Articial Arts
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De Backer
Emblem Book
Emblem Picture
Emblem Scholar
Emblem Studies
Emblem Writer
Emblematum
Emblematum Liber
emblems
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English Emblem Books
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Fog
Georgette De Montenay
Glasgow Library
iconography
Jesuit Emblem
Jesuit Emblematic Books
Jesuit scholarship
knowledge transmission
Mario Praz
mnemonic devices
pictures
Seventeenth Century Imagery
studies
symbolic image interpretation methods
Vice Versa
visual rhetoric analysis
visual semiotics
Wall Hangings
Wolfgang Neuber
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Product details
- ISBN 9781472430137
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture. However, as this book demonstrates, understanding the precise and often multiple meaning, intention and message emblems conveyed can prove a remarkably slippery process. In this book, Peter Daly draws upon many years’ research to reflect upon the recent upsurge in scholarly interest in, and rediscovery of, emblems following years of relative neglect. Beginning by considering some of the seldom asked, but important, questions that the study of emblems raises, including the importance of the emblem, the truth value of emblems, and the transmission of knowledge through emblems, the book then moves on to investigate more closely-focussed aspects such as the role of mnemonics, mottoes and visual rhetoric. The volume concludes with a review of some perhaps inadequately considered issues such as the role of Jesuits (who had a role in the publication of about a quarter of all known emblem books), and questions such as how these hybrid constructs were actually read and interpreted. Drawing upon a database containing records of 6,514 books of emblems and imprese, this study suggests new ways for scholars to approach important questions that have not yet been satisfactorily broached in the standard works on emblems.
Peter M. Daly has degrees from universities in Bristol and Zurich and spent most of his university career in Canada. His research and publications have been largely on emblems and German baroque literature.
