Emblems and the natural world

Emblems and the natural world /

Since its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and...

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Corporate Author: Emblems and the Natural World (1500-1700) (Conference)
Other Authors: Enenkel, K. A. E. (Editor), Smith, P. J. (Paul J.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017
Series:Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 50
Subjects:
Emblem books > History > 16th century > Congresses.
Emblem books > History > 17th century > Congresses.
Emblems > History > 16th century > Congresses.
Emblems > History > 17th century > Congresses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Emblems and the Natural World (ca. 1530-1700) / Karl Enenkel and Paul J. Smith
  • "Natural" or "Unnatural"? Representation of the Animal World in Early French Emblem Books / Alison Saunders
  • Camerarius's Quadrupeds (1595): A Plinius Emblematicus as a Mirror of Princes / Karl Enenkel
  • Joachim Camerarius's Emblem Book on Birds (1596), with an Excursus on America's Great Seal / Paul J. Smith
  • Ichthyology and Emblematics in Conrad Gesner's Historia piscium and Joachim Camerarius the Younger's Symbola et Emblemata / Sophia Hendrikx
  • The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius. Sweden's First Printed Emblem Book Revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger's Botanical Dissertation (1686) / Bernhard Schirg
  • Tradition and Empirical Observation
  • Nature in Giovio's and Symeoni's Dialogo Dell' Imprese from 1574 / Maren C. Biederbick
  • Comets
  • Celestial Objects in the Emblem Tradition of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / Sabine Kalff
  • Atmospheric Pressure: Natural Philosophy, Political Didactics and the Exigencies of Praise in Franz Reinzer's Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica (1698) / Christian Peters
  • Transcending the Natural World: A Developing Sublime in AndrĂ© FĂ©libien's Tapisseries du Roy / Frederik Knegtel
  • 'Maiestatis Hungariae Aquila': Christoph Lackner and the Hieroglyph of the Habsburg Eagle / Agnes Kusler
  • The Secretion of a Pearl as a Symbol for the Birth of a Prince / Aline Smeesters
  • The Taming of the Lion: Passions, Power and Religion in Achille Bocchi's Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555) / Anne Rolet
  • Mimetic Obscurity in Joris Hoefnagel's Four Elements / Marisa Anne Bass
  • The Owl and the Birds: Speeches, Emblems, and Fountains / Astrid Zenkert
  • Hermeneutic Animals
  • Johann Fischart's Use of Emblems in his German Translation of Rabelais / Tobias Bulang
  • Orbis pictus for Boys
  • Emblematics for Men: Some Remarks on Learning by Studying Pictures and Interpreting Riddles / Sonja Schreiner
  • Index Nominum
  • Index Animalium, Plantarum et Lapidum (Index of Animals, Plants, and Stones).

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