Gateways to the book: frontispieces and title pages in early modern Europe

Uittreksel

"Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages, many printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field from a great variety of academic approaches asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text"--Provided by publisher.

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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.