| Description |
1 online resource (635 p.) |
| Series |
Intersections Ser |
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Intersections Ser
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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art history.
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Art
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Büttner, Nils
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Zittel, Claus
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| ISBN |
9004464522 |
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9789004464520 |
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