Gateways to the book : frontispieces and title pages in early modern Europe / edited by Gitta Bertram, Nils Büttner, Claus Zittel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Bertram, Gitta, editor.

Büttner, Nils, editor.

Zittel, Claus, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; volume 76.

Intersections :interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 76 - 2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Europe--History.

Books.

Frontispiece--History.

Frontispiece.

Title pages--History.

Title pages.

Illustration of books--Europe--History.

Illustration of books.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 601 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages, many printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field from a great variety of academic approaches asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces - Introduction / Claus Zittel

pt. 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 Roßler

pt. 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 / Delpkine Schreuder

9. Travels towards Humankind's Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th-18th Centuries / Cornel Zwierlein

pt. 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 Buttner

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 i8th-Century Book Illustration: Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the Illustrated Editions of the Works of Edmund Waller / Malcolm Baker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gateways to the book

ISBN:

9789004459328

9004459324

OCLC:

1241441345

Publisher Number:

99992658187