Elena L. Calogero. Ideas and Images of Music in English and Continental Emblem Books: 1550–1700. Saecvla Spiritalia 39. Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 2009. xiii + 271 pp. index. illus. bibl. €64. ISBN: 978–3–87320–439–3.

2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 964-966
Author(s):  
Hilary Binda
Keyword(s):  
Emblem Books

scholarly journals "Because No One Can Seize me from Behind": Sir Christopher Hatton's Double Portrait and Elizabethan Textual Paintings

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
Elisa von Minnigerode
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Emblem Books ◽  
Meta Level ◽  
Pictorial Element

Many researchers have emphasised the special use of inscriptions and texts in Tudor paintings. Especially in Elizabethan times, emblematic images emerge and contain texts which present riddles to their audience, address an implicit or explicit beholder, and also give information about their own function. The enigmatic double-sided portrait of Christopher Hatton serves as an outstanding example of the various relations that texts and images form in this era. Two elements of its composition will be discussed here: the inscription and the depiction of Father Time, both on the verso-side. One, a textual element, forms a unit with the other, a pictorial element. On their own and in combination, both built up a reference to emblem books and sources outside the picture and contextualise themselves in humanistic discourses about opportunity and time. Thus, their exclusive presentation forms a dialogue with the beholder and opens up a meta-level of artistic expression. The ancient pictorial tradition of the God Kairos is addressed in the combination, while it labels itself as a depiction of time. Overall, the object briefly examined in this study is an outstanding example of Elizabethan artistic culture and remains a desideratum in art history.

Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture.

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1010
Author(s):  
William E. Engel ◽  
Michael Bath
Keyword(s):  
Emblem Books

Word and Sign in Elizabethan Conflicts with the Devil

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-256
Author(s):  
Kathleen R. Sands
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Emblem Books ◽  
Modern Mind ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Landed Gentry ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Phoenix

Gloriana, Britomart, Astraea, Belphoebe, the Sun in Splendor, England’s Moses, the new Deborah, the Phoenix—Elizabeth I possessed a generous wardrobe of public personas. Monarchy, chastity, divinity, and other intangibles played in the early modern mind as images, personifications, embodiments—the invisible rendered visible. As Clifford Geertz has observed, the Elizabethan imagination was “allegorical, Protestant, didactic, and pictorial; it lived on moral abstractions cast into emblems.” These emblems were culturally ubiquitous, appearing in books and broadsides, painted and carved portraits, architecture, tapestry, jewelry and clothing, armor and weapons, monumental funerary sculpture, wall and ceiling decoration. University students neglected Aristotle in favor of fashionable continental emblem books, and the taste for embellishing houses with emblems extended from the monarchy and aristocracy to the landed gentry and the rising middle class. Peter Daly stresses the psychological impact of emblems on the early modern mind when he observes that emblems were “as immediately and graphically present in this period as illustrated advertising is today.”

Old Spanish Wooduts: Emblem books

1923 ◽  
Vol s12-XII (261) ◽  
pp. 297-297
Author(s):  
F. P. Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Old Spanish ◽  
Emblem Books
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