Emblems and the natural world /
Emblems and the natural world /
edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel, Paul J. Smith.
- 1 online resource.
- Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; v. 50 .
- Intersections 50. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2016-II, ISBN: 9789004303881. .
"The contributions published in the present volume were selected from papers delivered at the conference Emblems and the Natural World (1500-1700), which took place at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster in December 2015, and they appear now in much revised and extended forms"--Text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Emblems and the Natural World (ca. 1530–1700) / “Natural” or “Unnatural”? Representation of the Animal World in Early French Emblem Books / Camerarius’s Quadrupeds (1595): A Plinius Emblematicus as a Mirror of Princes / Joachim Camerarius’s Emblem Book on Birds (1596), with an Excursus on America’s Great Seal / Ichthyology and Emblematics in Conrad Gesner’s Historia piscium and Joachim Camerarius the Younger’s Symbola et Emblemata / The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius. Sweden’s First Printed Emblem Book Revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Botanical Dissertation (1686) / Tradition and Empirical Observation—Nature in Giovio’s and Symeoni’s Dialogo Dell’ Imprese from 1574 / Comets—Celestial Objects in the Emblem Tradition of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / Atmospheric Pressure: Natural Philosophy, Political Didactics and the Exigencies of Praise in Franz Reinzer’s Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica (1698) / Transcending the Natural World: A Developing Sublime in André Félibien’s Tapisseries du Roy / ‘Maiestatis Hungariae Aquila’: Christoph Lackner and the Hieroglyph of the Habsburg Eagle / The Secretion of a Pearl as a Symbol for the Birth of a Prince / The Taming of the Lion: Passions, Power and Religion in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555) / Mimetic Obscurity in Joris Hoefnagel’s Four Elements / The Owl and the Birds: Speeches, Emblems, and Fountains / Hermeneutic Animals—Johann Fischart’s Use of Emblems in his German Translation of Rabelais / Orbis pictus for Boys—Emblematics for Men: Some Remarks on Learning by Studying Pictures and Interpreting Riddles / Index Nominum -- Index Animalium, Plantarum et Lapidum (Index of Animals, Plants, and Stones). Karl Enenkel and Paul J. Smith -- Alison Saunders -- Karl Enenkel -- Paul J. Smith -- Sophia Hendrikx -- Bernhard Schirg -- Maren C. Biederbick -- Sabine Kalff -- Christian Peters -- Frederik Knegtel -- Agnes Kusler -- Aline Smeesters -- Anne Rolet -- Marisa Anne Bass -- Astrid Zenkert -- Tobias Bulang -- Sonja Schreiner --
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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 the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.
9789004347076
10.1163/9789004347076 DOI
2017037916
Emblem books--History--16th century--Congresses.
Emblem books--History--17th century--Congresses.
Emblems--History--Congresses.--16th century
Emblems--History--Congresses.--17th century
PN6348.5
809/.915
"The contributions published in the present volume were selected from papers delivered at the conference Emblems and the Natural World (1500-1700), which took place at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster in December 2015, and they appear now in much revised and extended forms"--Text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Emblems and the Natural World (ca. 1530–1700) / “Natural” or “Unnatural”? Representation of the Animal World in Early French Emblem Books / Camerarius’s Quadrupeds (1595): A Plinius Emblematicus as a Mirror of Princes / Joachim Camerarius’s Emblem Book on Birds (1596), with an Excursus on America’s Great Seal / Ichthyology and Emblematics in Conrad Gesner’s Historia piscium and Joachim Camerarius the Younger’s Symbola et Emblemata / The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius. Sweden’s First Printed Emblem Book Revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Botanical Dissertation (1686) / Tradition and Empirical Observation—Nature in Giovio’s and Symeoni’s Dialogo Dell’ Imprese from 1574 / Comets—Celestial Objects in the Emblem Tradition of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / Atmospheric Pressure: Natural Philosophy, Political Didactics and the Exigencies of Praise in Franz Reinzer’s Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica (1698) / Transcending the Natural World: A Developing Sublime in André Félibien’s Tapisseries du Roy / ‘Maiestatis Hungariae Aquila’: Christoph Lackner and the Hieroglyph of the Habsburg Eagle / The Secretion of a Pearl as a Symbol for the Birth of a Prince / The Taming of the Lion: Passions, Power and Religion in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555) / Mimetic Obscurity in Joris Hoefnagel’s Four Elements / The Owl and the Birds: Speeches, Emblems, and Fountains / Hermeneutic Animals—Johann Fischart’s Use of Emblems in his German Translation of Rabelais / Orbis pictus for Boys—Emblematics for Men: Some Remarks on Learning by Studying Pictures and Interpreting Riddles / Index Nominum -- Index Animalium, Plantarum et Lapidum (Index of Animals, Plants, and Stones). Karl Enenkel and Paul J. Smith -- Alison Saunders -- Karl Enenkel -- Paul J. Smith -- Sophia Hendrikx -- Bernhard Schirg -- Maren C. Biederbick -- Sabine Kalff -- Christian Peters -- Frederik Knegtel -- Agnes Kusler -- Aline Smeesters -- Anne Rolet -- Marisa Anne Bass -- Astrid Zenkert -- Tobias Bulang -- Sonja Schreiner --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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 the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.
9789004347076
10.1163/9789004347076 DOI
2017037916
Emblem books--History--16th century--Congresses.
Emblem books--History--17th century--Congresses.
Emblems--History--Congresses.--16th century
Emblems--History--Congresses.--17th century
PN6348.5
809/.915