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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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| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | University of Toronto romance series ;
71. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.