The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 / by Karl A.E. Enenkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enenkel, K. A. E., author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 295.

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 36.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 295

Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. Emblematum liber.

Alciati, Andrea.

Schwarzenberg, Johann von, 1463-1528. Büchle Memorial.

Schwarzenberg, Johann von.

Stockhammer, Sebastian. In D. Andreae Alciati emblemata succincta commentariola.

Stockhammer, Sebastian.

Junius, Hadrianus, 1511-1575. Hadriani Iunii medici Emblemata ad D. Arnoldum Cobelium.

Junius, Hadrianus.

Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574. Symbolorum et emblematum ex animalibus quadrupedibus desumtorum centuria altera collecta a I.C.

Camerarius, Joachim.

Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629. Q. Horati Flacci emblemata.

Veen, Otto van.

Emblem books, European--History--16th century.

Emblem books, European.

Emblem books, European--History--17th century.

Emblem books, European--History and criticism.

Learning and scholarship--Europe--History.

Learning and scholarship.

Emblems--Europe--History.

Emblems.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 463 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato's Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. It demonstrates that the “father of emblematics” had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520.The study sheds light on the early development of the Latin emblem book 1531-1610, with special emphasis on the invention of the emblematic commentary, on natural history, and on advanced methods of conveying emblematic knowledge, from Junius to Vaenius.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Illustrations; Part 1 Alciato; Chapter 1 The Emblematization of Nature, and the Poetics of Alciato's Epigrams; 1 Introduction; 2 Curiosities of Natural History; 3 Ekphrases of Works of Art; 4 Animal Poems, Drawn from the Greek Anthology, and the Aesopean Tradition; 5 Emblematic Constructions Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; 6 The Description of Character Types through the Emblematization of Animals; 7 In Conclusion; Part 2 Vernacular Forerunners of Alciato's Emblematum Liber

Chapter 2 A Manuscript Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg's Mirror of Religious Virtue (Memorial der Tugent, ca. 1510-1512)1 Introduction; 2 Schwarzenberg's Ideas about the Combination of Text and Image

Congruences with the Emblematum Liber; 3 The Dichotomous Structure of Schwarzenberg's Emblems: Res significantes and res significatae; 4 Variations of the Dichotomous Structure; 5 A Catholic Emblem Book; 6 In Conclusion: The Transmission of Knowledge in Schwarzenberg's Emblematic Constructions

Chapter 3 A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg's Emblematization of Cicero's De officiis as a Mirror of Political Virtue1 A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato's Emblematum Liber; 2 The Genesis of the Emblematic De officiis; 3 The Transformation of De officiis into an Emblematic and Christian Mirror of Princes; 4 Emblematic Means for the Philosophical Education of Laymen: Proverbs, Similes, Moral Conclusions; 5 Political Realism

A Kind of Machiavellization of De officiis avant la lettre?; 6 Monarchization of De officiis; 7 Emblems against Tyranny; 8 In Conclusion

Part 3 The Emblematic Commentary as a Means of Transmitting KnowledgeChapter 4 The Transformation of the Emblem Book into an Encyclopaedia: Stockhamer's Commentary on Alciato (1551/1556); 1 Introduction: The Impact of a Commentary on the Genre of the Emblem Book; 2 Stockhamer's Commentary on Alciato and His Humanist Learning; 3 Stockhamer's Commentary and the Transmission of Knowledge: The Construction of an Encyclopaedic Compendium; 4 The Emblematic Commentary as a Combination of Various Types of Encyclopaedia's: Natural History, Etymology, Mythology, Grammar, and Collections of Proverbs

5 The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship: Hadrianus Junius' Emblemata (1565); 1 Introduction; 2 The Enigmatic Structure of the Emblems, and the Enigma of the Author's Self-Commentary; 3 Potential Models for Junius' Commentary?; 4 The Function of Junius' Commentary: Authorization of Emblematic Interpretations, Transmission of Emblematic Knowledge, and Collection of Commonplaces; 5 The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship; Part 4 Advanced Emblematic Transmission of Knowledge

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-457) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Enenkel, K. A. E., author. Invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610

ISBN:

9789004355255

9004355251

OCLC:

1056198136