Emblems in the Free Imperial City: emblems, empire, and identity in early modern Nürnberg

Abstract

"Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg's visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this collection is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview of emblem studies, moving from strict iconological approaches to collaborations across methodologies and disciplines."-- Publisher's website.

Contents

Nürnberg in the Seventeenth Century: Seeing an Early Modern City through Emblems / Christopher D. Fletcher -- Inscriptiones Picturae et Emblemata": How Nürnberg's Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago / Mara R. Wade -- The Exterior of Nürnberg's Rathaus and the Art of Good Government / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- Images as Language: Dürer, the Triumphal Arch and the Emblem in Nürnberg / Thomas Schauerte -- The Migration of Emblems through Nürnberg's History: From Triumph to Civic Memory / Tamar Cholcman -- Some Examples of Emblems in the Applied Arts from the Free Imperial City of Nürnberg / Silvia Glaser -- Rem's Emblemata Politica in Context: Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Victoria Gutsche -- Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629 / Werner Wilhelm Schnabel -- The Life of Dr. Georg Rem: Transcription and Translation of Siegmund Jakob Apin's "VITA D. GEORGII REMI," 1721 / Jessica R. Wells -- Mapping the Hand and Scanning the Forehead: Embedding Knowledge in Astrological Images / Stephanie Leitch -- Adding the Rötenbeck Manuscript to Emblematica Online, A Virtual Corpus for Research and Teaching / Timothy W. Cole.