Chapter Script as Image: Visual Acuity in the Script of Poggio Bracciolini
Chapter Script as Image: Visual Acuity in the Script of Poggio Bracciolini

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Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788864539683

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The fact that the graphic substance of writing oscillates between text and image is a potential which writing carries in itself from the very beginning. Every graphic trace on the manuscript page relates to the conventions of time in a way that is determined by the scribe. This becomes particularly tangible when the conventions are deliberately and systematically broken and replaced by new ones on the basis of a concrete concept. By introducing the humanistic minuscule, a script developed on the basis of the historical model of the Carolingian minuscule, Poggio Bracciolini and his mentors and friends Coluccio Salutati and Niccolò Niccoli, created philologically revised copies of the texts of classical authors in what they called littera antiqua, the new old script. This paper wants to show how the conscious incorporation of elements of historical manuscripts and their transformation into a specifically humanistic product makes use of the graphical potential of script and mise-en-page in order to translate a humanistic discourse into SchriftBild.

Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora

Author: Associate Professor Jing Tsu

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0674055403

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Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical battles over the control of the medium through standardization, technology, bilingualism, pronunciation, and literature in the Sinophone world. Encounters between languages, as well as the internal tensions between Mandarin and other Chinese dialects, present a dynamic, interconnected picture of languages on the move. --

Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture
Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture

Author: Peter Fane-Saunders

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1316419096

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The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. This book describes, for the first time, how the passages were interpreted from around 1430 to 1580, that is, from Alberti to Palladio. Chapters are arranged chronologically within three interrelated sections - antiquarianism; architectural writings; drawings and built monuments - thereby making it possible for the reader to follow the changing attitudes to Pliny over the period. The resulting study establishes the Naturalis historia as the single most important literary source after Vitruvius's De architectura.

Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography
Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography

Author: Ludwig Volkmann

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Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004360938

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The first English translation of Volkmann's Bilderschriften der Renaissance, the pioneering review of the influence of the hieroglyph on Renaissance culture, focused on the literature of emblem and device in Germany and France.

The Swerve
The Swerve

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0099572443

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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500

Author: Carla Keyvanian

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-30

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 9004307559

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In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian traces the political reasons for their emergence and their architectural type in Europe around 1200. In Rome, hospitals ballasted the corporate image of social elites, aided in settling and garrisoning vital sectors and were the hubs around which strategies aimed at territorial control revolved. When the strategies faltered, the institutions were rapidly abandoned. Hospitals in areas of enduring significance instead still function, bearing testimony to the influence of late medieval urban interventions on modern Rome.

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise

Author: Amy R. Bloch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 874

ISBN-13: 131640465X

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This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.

Mapping the Ottomans
Mapping the Ottomans

Author: Palmira Brummett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107090776

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This book examines how Ottomans were mapped in the narrative and visual imagination of early modern Europe's Christian kingdoms.

A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature
A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature

Author: Victoria Moul

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-16

Total Pages: 877

ISBN-13: 131684904X

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Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More's Utopia, Milton's Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume.