[PDF] The Ripa Index eBook

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226136825

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For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as "against nature," race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. Contributors: Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal

Author : Peter Maurice Daly
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802078919

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The literature of the 16th and 17th centuries was informed by the symbolic thought embodied in the mixed art form of emblems. This study explores the relationship between the emblem and the literature of England and Germany during the period.

Author : Roelof van Straten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136614028

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Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create meaning. The book presents the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of iconography and ICONCLASS, the comprehensive iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It gives particular emphasis to the history of iconography, personification, allegory, and symbols, and the literary sources that inform iconographic readings, and includes annotated bibliographies of books and journal articles from around the world that are associated with iconographic research. The author of numerous articles and a four-volume reference work on Italian prints, Roelof van Straten is currently working on an iconographic index covering the prints of Goltzius and his school.

Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022628882X

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In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? The Worldmakers moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, Ramachandran describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.

Author : Helene E. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136787933

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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Cesare Ripa
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486265957

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Excellent royalty-free reprint of 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition of 1593 classic that codified symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. New introduction, translations of captions and index, plate descriptions.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368747

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"Each object is described and analyzed in terms of its provenance and published history, as well as its construction, materials, and conservation. With its painstaking attention to detail, this volume is the definitive catalogue of the Getty Museum's collection of French Baroque furniture and will be of interest to scholars, conservators, and all students of French decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thomas F. Heck
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781580460446

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There has long been a need to introduce performing-arts enthusiasts and students to the fascinating field of iconography, both as manifested in art history and in its more pragmatic or applied forms. Yet relatively little systematic effort has been made to collect and interpret centuries of such visual evidence in the light of the best available art-historical information, combined with corroborating textual documentation and insights from the histories of performance disciplines. Aspiring iconographers of the performing arts need to be aware that there are often several levels of interpretation which great works of visual art will sustain. This book explores these levels of interpretation: a surface or literal reading, a deeper reading of the work which seeks to enter the mind of the artist and asks how and why he put a given work together, and the deepest reading of the work relating it to the artistic traditions and culture in which the artist lived. In expounding on these levels of iconographic interpretations four discourses by scholars active in the study of visual records are given in relation to traditions, techniques, and trends: performance in general (Katritzky), music (Heck), theatre (Erenstein), and dance (Smith). Effort is made to keep abreast of modern technology influencing iconographic representations as on the Internet and virtual reality.Thomas F. Heck is Professor of Musicology and Head of the Music and Dance Library at the Ohio State University.

Author : Roelof van Straten
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Engraving
ISBN :

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Foleor Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of a new series of iconographic reference works. After his series of Iconclass indexes on Italian prints, Roelof van Straten is now preparing a ten-volume iconographic catalogue: the Iconclass Indexes: Dutch Prints. The first three volumes published (volumes 4, 7 and 8 in the series) cover the Dutch prints catalogued by Bartsch in the first five volumes of "Le Peintre-Graveur". The indices on Dutch prints are of special importance to those institutes and museums that have a copy of The Illustrated Bartsch at their disposal, because the volumes will refer to all the Dutch prints reproduced therein. Dutch prints, with their enormous spread and influence on the visual arts, will finally be accessible according to subject. "The Iconclass Indexes: Dutch Prints" will soon become an indispensable reference tool for all those who are interested in Netherlandish art and culture of the16th and 17th centuries.