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Book SynopsisReading is apparently the greatest proof of refinement when viewed within the context of the social climb of the visual artist. It is only as reader that the artist can participate in the exclusive culture of clerics, humanists, rulers and courtiers. How did it come about that such a figure was integrated into the general history-of-knowledge context of research on the early modern period – in order to outline what artists’ reading specifically entails. Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume will then correspondingly elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves.The volume endeavours at long last to go beyond merely publishing inventories by investigating the problem of artists’ libraries with a fundamentally stronger emphasis on a discourse-analytical and history-of-knowledge approach. Contributors include: Rainer Bayreuther, Maria Berbara, Cécile Beuzelin, Heiko Damm, Annette de Vries, Kelly Donahue-Wallace, Angela Dressen, Lex Hermans, Eckhard Leuschner, Alexander Marr, Martin Papenbrock, Tico Seifert, Eva Struhal, Michael Thimann, Huub van der Linden, Elsje van Kessel, Iris Wenderholm, and Claus Zittel.Trade Review‘’This excellent volume, part of Intersections series of Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, focuses on the reading and writing habits of premodern artists who vary in profession from painters and architect designers to musicians […] this book makes a substantive contribution to the intellectual history of the early modern period. […] The book’s dynamic approach to this subject makes it appealing to historians of a wide range of disciplines including art, architecture design, literature and music’’. Lisandra Estevez, Winston-Salem State University. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2014, pp. 175-177.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Close and Extensive Reading among Artists in the Early Modern Period HEIKO DAMM, MICHAEL THIMANN, CLAUS ZITTEL I. THE POSSESSION OF BOOKS AND INDIVIDUAL READING 1. Jacopo Pontormo: A Scholarly Craftsman CÉCILE BEUZELIN 2. Reading with acutezza: Lorenzo Lippi’s Literary Culture EVA STRUHAL 3. Gillis van Coninxloo. Der Künstler als Leser MARTIN PAPENBROCK 4. Pieter Lastman als Leser. Eine Künstlerbibliothek und ihre Nutzung CHRISTIAN TICO SEIFERT 5. The President as a Reader: Sir Joshua Reynolds and Book IRIS WENDERHOLM II. THE THEORISATION OF READING AND ITS EFFECT ON IMAGES 6. Artists and Knowledge in Sixteenth-century Venice ELSJE VAN KESSEL 7. Reading Rhetoric: Oratory in Gian Paolo Lomazzo’s Treatises on the Art of Painting LEX HERMANS 8. Hondius meets Van Mander: The Cultural Appropriation of the First Netherlandish Book on the Visual Arts System of Knowledge in a Series of Artist’s Portraits ANETTE DE VRIES 9. Catonem narrare: Charles Le Brun as Reader and Painter of a Stoic’s Suicide ECKHARD LEUSCHNER 10. The Collaborative Authorship of Pictorial Invention in Seventeenth-century Italy: Artist, Adviser, and Patron at Palazzo Carignano HUUB VAN DER LINDEN III. BEYOND THE STUDIO 11. Peripatetici pariter et Platonici: Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola and the Library of the Badia Fiesolana ANGELA DRESSEN 12. Nascentes morimur: Francisco da Holanda as Artist, Reader and Writer MARIA BERBARA 13. Commonplaces, and Technical Knowledge: The Architect-Engineer as Reader ALEXANDER MARR 14. Bach – Mattheson. Zwei deutsche Komponisten und ihre Bücher RAINER BAYREUTHER 15. An Evangelist of Taste: The Book Collection of Jerónimo Antonio Gil KELLY DONAHUE WALLACE Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisArchival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the papers of their dead predecessors? This volume makes a firm case for expanding what counts as scientific labour, integrating scribes, archivist, library keepers, editors, and friends and family of deceased naturalists into the history of science. It shows how early modern natural philosophers pursued new natural knowledge in dialogue with their recent material past. Finally, it demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in the growth and development of the “New Sciences.” Contributors are: Arnold Hunt, Michael Hunter, Vera Keller, Carol Pal, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Victoria Sloyan, Alison Walker, and Elizabeth Yale.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Table Notes on Contributors Introduction Vera Keller, Anna Marie Roos and Elizabeth Yale 1 The Division of a Paper Kingdom: The Tragic Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Manuscripts Richard Serjeantson 2 Scarlet Letters: Sir Theodore de Mayerne and the Early Stuart Color World in the Royal Society Vera Keller 3 Accidental Archive: Samuel Hartlib and the Afterlife of Female Scholars Carol Pal 4 Fossilized Remains: The Martin Lister and Edward Lhuyd Ephemera Anna Marie Roos 5 Playing Archival Politics with Hans Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Woodward Elizabeth Yale 6 Under Sloane’s Shadow: the Archive of James Petiver Arnold Hunt 7 Collecting Knowledge: Annotated Material in the Library of Sir Hans Sloane Alison Walker 8 Collecting Genomics: Documenting Modern, Collaborative Science Victoria Sloyan Afterword Michael Hunter

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