El mundo simbólico
Subtitle: Los metales. Los instrumentos eclesiásticos : (libros xiii-xiv)
By: Filippo Picinelli ; editoras, Rosa Lucas González, Bárbara Skinfill Nogal ; traductores: Pascual Guzmán de Alba (Los metales), Alberto Carrillo Cázares (Los instrumentos)
Contributors: Lucas González, Rosa, ed; Skinfill Nogal, Bárbara, ed; Guzmán de Alba, José Pascual, tr; Carrillo Cázares, Alberto, tr
Series: Colección Clásicos; Colección Clásicos (Zamora, Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico)
Publisher: El Colegio de Michoacan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Zamora, Mich
Language: spa
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789706791849
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism; Emblems; Early works to 1800; Metals; Signs and symbols; Alchemy; Arte y simbolismo cristiano; Metales; Simbolismo; Emblemas; Trabajos anteriores a 1800; Signos y símbolos
Other titles: Metales; Instrumentos
Work titles: Mondo simbolico. Libro 13-14
Description: Published in this volume are the transcription and interpretation of the texts and emblems of two of the books 17th century Italian priest Filipo Picinelli wrote: volume 13 "The Metals" with which the author concludes his series of a major study of the "Natural World" and volume 14 "Eclesiastical Instruments", the first of the series of his study of the "Artificial World". Both books are the beginning and the end and represent the main sections of the "Mondo Simbolico", (Milan, 1653) the monumental encyclopedia of metal and ecclesiastical emblems used in the artistic and literary production in Europe and the Americas during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.