Gateways to the book : frontispieces and title pages in early modern Europe / edited by Gitta Bertram, Nils Büttner, Claus Zittel.
Contributor(s): Bertram, Gitta [editor.]
| Büttner, Nils [editor.]
| Zittel, Claus [editor.]
Language: English Series: : 76.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xxxiii, 601 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004459328Subject(s): Books -- Europe -- History



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British Museum | Prints and Drawings | Shelves | O.4.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00080312 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. The culture of the fontispiece -- Considerations on the history and the analysis of illustrated title pages / Gitta Bertram -- Minerva in the printshop : visual and verbal tactics for undermining the social productivity of printed portraits in early modern scholarly culture / Hole Rössler -- Part 2. The frontispiece between art and science -- The poetological frontispiece in 17th-century German poetry / Claus Zittel -- Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & Co. : frontispieces and title woodcuts in music theory prints and musical textbooks around 1500 / Fabian Kolb -- Visualising the constitution of art : frontispieces in 'Kunstliterature" in the early modern period / Constanze Keilholz -- When Mars meets Euclid : the relationship between war and mathematical sciences in frontispieces of fortification treatises / Delphine Schreuder -- Travels towards humankind's salvation, travels through nature enlightened by science : frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th-18th centuries / Cornel Zwierlein -- Part 3. Case studies -- A moralistic journey : the tabula cebes as an architectural and spatial allegory in sixteenth-century Basel / Miranda L. Elston -- Rubens's legacy in book design / Nils Büttner -- The title page of Jacob van der Gracht's Anatomie and 17th-century Dutch artists' education in anatomy / Alice Zamboni -- The role of multiple fontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii / Alison C. Fleming -- Juan Ricci de Guevara's introduction of wise painting / Martijn van Beek -- The architectural folios of Jeremias Wolff / Daniel Fulco -- Monumental elements in early 18th-century book illustration : Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the illustrated editions of the works of Edmund Waller / Malcolm Baker.