Emblems and art history
Subtitle: nine essays
By: edited by Alison Adams ; assisted by Laurence Grove.
Contributors: Adams, Alison.; Grove, Laurence.; University of Glasgow. Dept. of French.
Series: Glasgow emblem studies -- v 1
Publisher: Dept. of French, University of Glasgow
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Emblems in art.; Emblem books.
Notes: Text in English, French, German.
Table of contents: value: Architecture and emblematics: issues of interpretation / Judi Loach; value: La Fontaine, emblematics and the plastic arts: Les Amours de Psyché and Le Songe de Vaux / Laurence Grove; value: 'La Vie des champs et la vie des héros': images of landscape and rural life and Gomberville's La Doctrine des mœurs / Claire Pace; value: Emblems on the art of painting: Pictura and purpose / Judith Dundas; value: La polysémie des figures dans l'emblématique sacrée / Agnès Guiderdoni Bruslé; value: Ovidian Metamorphoses of the Queen of Sins / Joanna A. Tomicka; value: Ein emblematisches Porträt aus Nürnberg / Lubomír Konečný; value: Emblem v. caricature: a tenacious conceptual framework / Eirwen E.C. Nicholson; value: Emblems from Quarles on Scottish gravestones / Michael Bath and Betty Willsher.