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E22.AMS.15Mar2016 2 (1).Pdf EMBLEMATICA An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies Volume 22 Managing Editor Mara R. Wade Review Editor Valérie Hayaert Founding Editors Peter M. Daly Daniel Russell Editores Emeriti David Graham, Managing Editor Emeritus Michael Bath, Review Editor Emeritus AMS Press, Inc. Ne w York EMBLEMATICA ISSN 0885-988X Manuscript submissions and other editorial correspondence should be addressed electronically, in a standard word-processing document format, to Mara R. Wade <[email protected]>. All submissions will be submitted to blind external peer review; the editors' decision on acceptance will be final. Books for review should be addressed to Valérie Hayaert; however, no obligation is recognized to review or return any books received. Articles and essays should conform to the house style sheet, which is available upon request. General guidance may be obtained from the MLA Handbook for Writers and the Chicago Manual of Style. Authors should be prepared to submit high-quality electronic images, also in a standard format such as JPEG or TIFF, and to provide evidence of permission to reproduce them. Subscriptions and remittances should be sent to the publisher, AMS Press, Inc., Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bldg. 292, Suite 417, 63 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA. Camera-ready copy of this issue of Emblematica was produced at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Jeffrey Castle. Volume 22 ISBN-10 0-404-64772-3 ISBN-13 978-0-404-64772-8 Set ISBN-13: 978-0-40464750-6 Copyright © AMS Press, Inc., 2016 All rights reserved All AMS books are printed on acid-free paper that meets the guidelines for per- formance and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. AMS Press, Inc. Brooklyn Navy Yard, 63 Flushing Ave – Unit #221 Brooklyn, NY 11205-1073, USA www.amspressinc.com Manufactured in the United States of America EMBLEMATICA An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies Emblematica publishes original articles, essays, and specialized bibliographies in all areas of emblem studies. In addition, it regularly contains review articles, reviews, research reports (including work in progress, theses, conference reports, and completed theses), notes and queries, notices of forthcoming conferences and publications, and various types of docu- mentation. Emblematica is published annually. Editors Mara R. Wade, Managing Editor Valérie Hayaert Vanautgaerden Department of Germanic Languages Review Editor and Literatures 5, rue Merle d'Aubigné 2090 Foreign Languages Building 1207, Genève 707 S. Mathews Avenue Switzerland University of Illinois at [email protected] Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 USA [email protected] Editorial Board Pedro F. Campa Jean-Michel Massing University of Tennessee at University of Cambridge Chattanooga Simon McKeown Paulette Choné Marlborough College Université de Bourgogne (Dijon) Sabine Mödersheim John Cull University of Wisconsin, Madison College of the Holy Cross Dietmar Peil Denis L. Drysdall Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, University of Waikato, New Zealand Munich Agnès Guiderdoni Stephen Rawles Université catholique de Louvain University of Glasgow Library Hiroaki Ito Mary Silcox Saitama University, Japan McMaster University Lubomír Konečný Arnoud S. Q. Visser Academy of Sciences of the Czech Universiteit Leiden Republic, Prague Alan Young Donato Mansueto Acadia University Università di Bari “Ex literarum studiis immortalitatem acquiri” [Immortality acquired through the study of letters], Andrea Alciato, Emblematum Libellus, Paris, 1534. Courtesy of Emblematica Online: University of Glasgow Library Special Collections. EMBLEMATICA An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies Volume 22 Preface to Volume 22 ix David Graham “Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts”: Lessons from the History of Emblem Studies 1 Michael Bath and Theo van Heijnsbergen Paradin Politicized: Some New Sources for Scottish Paintings 43 Alison Saunders More French Emblematic Predecessors, Godly and Amorous 69 Lucy Razzall “Non intus ut extra”: The Emblematic Silenus in Early Modern Literature 107 John Mulryan Captioned Images of Venus in Vincenzo Cartari’s Imagini 123 Simon McKeown “Imitation” and “Idea” in Eighteenth-Century English Painting: William Hoare of Bath, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the Emblematic Inheritance 141 Michael Bath Books and Buildings: Recursive Emblems in the Applied Arts 167 EMBLEMATICA REVIEWS AND CRITICISM Anne Rolet and Stéphane Rolet, eds. André Alciat (1492–1550) Un humaniste au confluent des savoirs dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, by Valérie Hayaert 195 Aleksandr Makhov. Emblematika: Makrokosm [Emblematica: Macrocosm], by Tatiana Artemyeva 200 Nicholas J. Crowe. Jeremias Drexel’s ‘Christian Zodiac.’ Seventeenth- Century Publishing Sensation. A Critical Edition, Translated and with an Introduction & Notes, by Peter Daly 208 Hanna Pahl, ed. Emblematic Strategies in Contemporary Art, Selected Papers from the Workshop Emblematic Strategies at the University of Kiel, July 29–31, 2014, by Valérie Hayaert 212 Christine McCall Probes and Sabine Mödersheim, eds. The Art of Persuasion. Emblems and Propaganda, by Nathalie Carré 214 Francesco Lucioli, Amore punito e disarmato. Parola e immagine da Petrarca all’ Arcadia, by Alexandre Vanautgaerden 218 Valérie Hayaert and Antoine Garapon. Allégories de Justice. La grand’chambre du Parlement de Flandre, by Jean Michel Massing 219 Volume Index 225 Preface to Volume 22 With Volume 22 the new editorial board takes full responsibility for Emblematica, An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies. Mara R. Wade assumes the role as Managing Editor, and Valérie Hayaert serves as Book Review Editor. To have reached this point is a milestone in which several colleagues have been involved, and both Valérie Hayaert and I wish to thank our im- mediate predecessors, David Graham and Michael Bath, for their unfail- ing support and generosity as we adjusted to our new roles and worked to prepare our first volume. Our work on Volume 22, as well as the ease of the transition process, profited greatly from their professional advice and guid- ance. We also wish to thank the Founding Editors, Daniel Russell and Peter Daly, without whose vision the journal would not have reached volumes numbering in the twenties. We would like to thank the immediate past managing editor, Professor David Graham, Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal, for crafting a well-paced succession plan and preparing the transition. David’s patience ensured a smooth transfer for the editorship of the present volume, and he continued to advise and help wherever he could as this volume approached publication. Both David Graham and Michael Bath have been stalwart advocates of Emblem Studies since the journal’s inception. As the outgoing book review editor, Professor Michael Bath, Emeritus, University of Strathclyde, and Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, has been, as ever so, the congenial spirit who helps to identify both books to be reviewed and scholars to review them. He has been instrumental every step of the way. Therefore, we consider it a particular honor that both David Graham and Michael Bath have agreed to publish in this volume of Emblematica their keynote lectures from the Tenth International Conference of the Soci- ety for Emblem Studies in 2014. Their plenary lectures established in many respects the framework of the conference, much as they form the open- ing and closing frame of this volume. Earlier versions of the contributions xi Emblematica, Volume 22. Copyright © 2016 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. xii EMBLEMATICA by Alison Saunders, John Mulryan, and Simon McKeown published here also were first presented at that conference. The cordial environment of the Kiel conference provided all participants the opportunity for scholarly ex- change, and allowed the authors featured here to deepen and expand the arguments for presentation in article form. We wish to extend our profuse thanks to Professor Ingrid Höpel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, who organized and hosted the conference. It is an honor and a pleasure to have worked with David and Mike over the years, and we are especially pleased that their scholarly contributions comprise the first and final papers in this issue. Both authors have produced insightful new research that builds upon a lifetime of scholarly inquiry, and thus it is appropriate that we honor their efforts here. David Gra- ham’s wide-ranging contribution, “‘Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts’: Lessons from the History of Emblem Studies,” takes stock of the discipline’s accomplishments in the past decades and offers suggestions as the field moves forward. Here he builds on an established trajectory of periodic assessments of the discipline, including, among several others, “Three Phases of Emblem Digitization: The FirstT wenty Years, The Next Five”1 and “‘Corpus Electronicum Cano’: Some Implications of Very Large Electronic Emblem Corpora.”2 He is well placed to summarize and assess the progress of the discipline, and his advice will no doubt be invaluable as Emblem Studies advance. Michael Bath’s insightful article, “Books and Buildings: Recursive Emblems in the Applied Arts,” examines the emblematic decoration of three spaces in manor houses in Germany, England, and Scotland during the early modern period. This new research builds out from his published books, such as Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland, by incorporating a comparative dimension
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