The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610 by Karl A.E. Enenkel, Karl A.E. Enenkel

The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610

Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History #36

Karl A.E. Enenkel, Karl A.E. Enenkel

464 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

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This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato's Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the...

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