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Emblematic structures in Renaissance French culture /

The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russell, Daniel S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1995]
Colección:University of Toronto romance series ; 71.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Medieval and early Renaissance antecedents
  • Book illustration in medieval France and the relation between picture and text in the later Middle Ages
  • The allegorical antecedents
  • Proto-emblematics in the fifteenth century
  • Proto-emblematics in the early sixteenth century
  • Emblems in Renaissance France
  • Alciato and the humanist background of the emblem
  • The dissemination of the emblem idea in France
  • The construction of the early French emblem
  • Emblematics and the structuring of a culture
  • Emblematics and court culture
  • Emblematic structures in Renaissance literature
  • Conclusion.