Gateways to the Book Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe.
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BRILL,
2021
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on the Editors
- Chapter 1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Culture of the Frontispiece
- Chapter 2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title Pages
- Chapter 3 Minerva in the Printshop: Publisher's Advertising in Frontispieces and the Media Presence of Early Modern Printer-Publishers
- Chapter 4 The Frontispiece Portrait and Its Critics: Visual and Verbal Tactics for Undermining the Social Productivity of Printed Portraits in Early Modern Scholarly Culture
- Part 2 The Frontispiece between Art and Science
- Chapter 5 The Poetological Frontispiece in 17th-Century German Poetry
- Chapter 6 Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & Co.: Frontispieces and Title Woodcuts in Music Theory Prints and Musical Textbooks around 1500
- Chapter 7 Visualising the Constitution of Art: Frontispieces in "Kunstliteratur" in the Early Modern Period
- Chapter 8 When Mars Meets Euclid: The Relationship between War and Mathematical Sciences in Frontispieces of Fortification Treatises
- Chapter 9 Travels towards Humankind's Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th-18th Centuries
- Part 3 Case Studies
- Chapter 10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century Basel
- Chapter 11 Rubens's Legacy in Book Design
- Chapter 12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht's Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists' Education in Anatomy
- Chapter 13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii
- Chapter 14 Juan Ricci de Guevara's Introduction of Wise Painting
- Chapter 15 The Architectural Folios of Jeremias Wolff
- Chapter 16 Monumental Elements in Early 18th-Century Book Illustration: Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the Illustrated Editions of the Works of Edmund Waller
- Index Nominum
