Hieroglyphica, sive de sacros aegyptiorum, aliarumque gentium litteris, commentariorum libri LVIII: cum duobus alijs ab eruditissimo viro annexis

• • Is soort werk 

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• • Heeft auteur 

    Valerianus, Pierius

Uitgever

• Uitgave

  Coloniae Agrippinae: Ex Officina Hieratorum, anno 1631

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• Onderwerp

  • Als onderwerp 

    klassieke oudheid
  • Als onderwerp 

    iconografie
  • Als onderwerp 

    allegorieën
  • Als onderwerp 

    mythologie

Annotaties / titel notitie's

• Notities

  • Bijgebonden 3 werken van dezelfde auteur: Hieroglyphicorum collectanea, ex veteribus et neo tericis descripta, in sex libros ordine alphabetico digesta. - Coloniae Agrippinae : Sumptibus Antonij et Arnoldi Hierati, 1631. - 248, [8], 20 p.; Pro sacerdotum barbis ad Clariss: cardinalem hippolytum medicem ... accesserunt varia poemat. - Coloniae Agrippinae : [s.n.], 1631. - 122 p.; De litteratorum infelicitate, libri duo. - [S.l. : s.n., ca. 1631]. - 83 p.
  • A book of pivotal importance in late Renaissance iconography, first published in Basel, 1556; the edition 1575 follows that of 1567, which was the first to contain the two additional books by Caelio Augustino Curio. Dedicated to Cosimo I de’ Medici, Valeriano’s “Hieroglyphica” is “a vast compilation of all the hieroglyphic knowledge of his time; it drew on Horapollo, the ‘Physiologus,’ the obelisks he saw in Rome, the Cabala and the Bible as sources. It was so popular that eleven editions were published in the first seventy years. At the time it was believed that hieroglyphs were a purely ideographical form of writing used by ancient Egyptian priests to foreshadow divine ideas, and that the Greek philosophers had tapped into ‘hieroglyphic wisdom.’ In the dedication of his ‘Hieroglyphica,’ Valeriano writes, ‘[To] speak hieroglyphically is nothing else but to disclose the true nature of things divine and human. He contributed no revolutionary ideas to the field, but his compilation was instrumental in changing the study of hieroglyphic symbols from a philosophical to a philological pursuit” (Funk). Valeriano (1477-1558) was Vasari’s Latin teacher, and tutor to Giovanni de’ Medici (the future Pope Leo X); in 1509, as the private secretary of Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, he travelled to Rome, where he studied the city’s antiquities. The “Hieroglyphica” provided a fountain of emblematic imagery for leading artists, while the inscriptions in his historical material were utilized by humanist historians. It was unquestionably the most important source for Ripa’s “Iconologia” (1593 and after). “Valeriano supplied Ripa not only with separate figures and with countless individual attributes, but also with many learned references and explanations for the images and attributes that he borrowed from other sources” (Elizabeth McGrath, in the Dictionary of Art).
  • Ed. princeps: 1556

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