The Emblem and its Variations

Paulette Choné, Marie Chaufour, Jean-Jacques Chardin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036449933 (ISBN)

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An emblem is a combination of images and texts that flourished in the early modern period. The book presents the culture of the emblem and its influences and adaptations in various art forms from the late sixteenth century to the 1930s. It also looks at the production of emblem books, the symbolism of certain recurring motifs in emblem collections, and printed emblems as objects of religious devotion. The emblem requires the deciphering of images whose meaning often remains obscure, and the book aims to remind twenty-first-century readers, living in a world where iconographic motifs are ubiquitous, that understanding images is as demanding today as it was in the early modern period. The book will be of interest to specialists in the history of art and early modern culture, as well as to readers wishing to familiarize themselves with the art of reading images.

Paulette Choné is Professor emerita at the University of Bourgogne, France. Her research interests focus on European artistic and intellectual life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her many publications include Emblèmes et pensée symbolique en Lorraine (1525-1633). "Comme un jardin au cœur de la chrétienté" (1991).Marie Chaufour is a Teaching Assistant at the University of Bourgogne where she received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art (2012). She is a specialist in early modern emblem books and has recently published a groundbreaking study on Jean Baudoin, Jean Baudoin (ca. 1584-1650): le moraliste et l'emblématique (2023).Jean-Jacques Chardin is Professor emeritus at the University of Strasbourg, France. He is a specialist in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature and has published numerous articles on Shakespeare, Spenser, and on emblem collections. His many publications include As You Like It ou le palimpseste du sens (1997).

Erscheinungsdatum	06.08.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781036449933 / 9781036449933
Zustand	Neuware