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Book SynopsisGateways to the Book investigates the complex image–text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages on the one hand and texts on the other, in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages and a great deal of printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field with a great variety of academic approaches, asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation, and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces – Introduction Gitta Bertram, Nils Büttner and Claus Zittel PART 1: The Culture of the Frontispiece 2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title Pages Gitta Bertram 3 Minerva in the Printshop: Publisher’s Advertising in Frontispieces and the Media Presence of Early Modern Printer-Publishers Lea Hagedorn 4 The Frontispiece Portrait and Its Critics: Visual and Verbal Tactics for Undermining the Social Productivity of Printed Portraits in Early Modern Scholarly Culture Hole Rößler PART 2: The Frontispiece between Art and Science 5 The Poetological Frontispiece in 17th-Century German Poetry Claus Zittel 6 Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & Co.: Frontispieces and Title Woodcuts in Music Theory Prints and Musical Textbooks around 1500 Fabian Kolb 7 Visualising the Constitution of Art: Frontispieces in “Kunstliteratur” in the Early Modern Period Constanze Keilholz 8 When Mars Meets Euclid: The Relationship between War and Mathematical Sciences in Frontispieces of Fortification Treatises Delphine Schreuder 9 Travels towards Humankind’s Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th–18th Centuries Cornel Zwierlein PART 3: Case Studies 10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century Basel Miranda L. Elston 11 Rubens’s Legacy in Book Design Nils Büttner 12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht’s Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists’ Education in Anatomy Alice Zamboni 13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii Alison C. Fleming 14 Juan Ricci de Guevara’s Introduction of Wise Painting Martijn van Beek 15 The Architectural Folios of Jeremias Wolff Daniel Fulco 16 Monumental Elements in Early 18th-Century Book Illustration: Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the Illustrated Editions of the Works of Edmund Waller Malcolm Baker Index Nominum
