Klappentext

Dr. Jean Michel Massing is a Reader in the History of Art and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. This first volume of Studies in Imagery, Text and Images consists of 25 studies grouped under four sections: Classical Art and its Nachleben; Symbolic Languages; Saints and Devils; Comets, Dreams and Stars. The topics include: the Celto-Roman goddess Epona, the Calumny of Apelles and its reconstructions, the Triumph of Caesar, proverb illustration, the art of memory, emblematic and didactic imagery, the temptations of St Anthony, as well as dreams and celestial phenomena. They span a wide range of periods, from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century. Volume I Contents: Introduction Classical Art and its Nachleben: Le culte d'Epona dans les vallees de la Sarre et de la Blies Le devant de sarcophage romain de l'ancienne collection Huber: une copie d'apres P.S. Bartoli Nicola da Urbino and Signorelli's lost Calumny of Apelles A few more Calumnies. Lucian and the Visual Arts The Illustrations of Lucian's Imago vitae aulicae Jacobus Argentoratensis. Etude preliminaire The Triumph of Caesar by Jacobus Argentoratensis. Its Iconography and Influence . . . huit pieces du triomphe de Cesar for the Emperor Maximilian Veleda, Susanna, Boadicea or Dorothy: Antiquarian Discussions on some Sixteenth-century Bricks Symbolic Languages: Proverbial Wisdom and Social Criticism: two new pages from the Walters Art Gallery's Proverbes en Rimes Proverbes en Rimes et Dictz moraulx pour faire tapisserie. New material on old topics Casting flowers to swine: From the proverbial to the emblematic pig A New Work by Francois Du Moulin and the Problem of Pre-Emblematic Traditions The Broad and Narrow Way. From German Pietists to English Open-Air Preachers Laurent Fries et son Ars memorativa. La cathedrale de Strasbourg comme espace mnemonique From Manuscript to Engravings. Late Medieval Mnemonic Bibles Autour de quelques essais musicaux inedits de Durer (with Christian Meyer) Saints and Devils: Gert van Lon's Madonna in the Rosary L'iconographie de l'agression de saint Antoine de Grunewald The Iconography of Schongauer's Tribulations of St Anthony and the influence of this Print on German Art 'Sicut erat in diebus Antonii'. The devils under the bridge in the Tribulations of St Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch in Lisbon Schongauer, Bosch, Grunewald et les autres. De quelques Tribulations de saint Antoine et de leurs influences Three Panels by the Master of the View of Sainte-Gudule in the Chapel of Queens' College, Cambridge Comets, Dreams and Stars: Der Stern des Giotto. Naturschilderung und Symbolismus in der Kometenikonographie des XIII und XIV Jahrhunderts Durer's Dreams A Sixteenth-century Illustrated Treatise on Comets Index.