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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 | Frontispiece -- History | Title pages -- Illustrations -- History | Illustration of books -- Europe -- History
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Prints and Drawings Shelves O.4.23 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00080312
Total holds: 0

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.