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Gateways to the book frontispieces and title pages in early modern Europe
Title
Gateways to the book [electronic resource] : frontispieces and title pages in early modern Europe / edited by Gitta Bertram, Nils B|ttner, Claus Zittel.
ISBN
9789004464520
9004464522
Publication
Boston : Brill, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( 635 p.).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 6, 2021).
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Print version: Bertram, Gitta Gateways to the Book Boston : BRILL,c2021
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2021
Series
Intersections
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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