TY - BOOK ID - 1710 TI - Emblematic structures in Renaissance French culture PY - 1995 VL - 71 SN - 0802006167 1442655011 1442623470 1442656034 9780802006165 PB - Toronto: University of Toronto press, DB - UniCat KW - Book history KW - Iconography KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - France KW - Emblems KW - Emblem books, French KW - History. KW - -Emblems KW - -Heraldry KW - Signs and symbols KW - Symbolism KW - French emblem books KW - History KW - -History KW - -French emblem books KW - Heraldry KW - Emblem books [French ] KW - Emblems - France - History. KW - Emblem books, French - History. KW - France. KW - Bro-C'hall KW - Fa-kuo KW - Fa-lan-hsi KW - Faguo KW - Falanxi KW - Falanxi Gongheguo KW - Farans KW - Farānsah KW - França KW - Francia (Republic) KW - Francija KW - Francja KW - Francland KW - Francuska KW - Franis KW - Franḳraykh KW - Frankreich KW - Frankrig KW - Frankrijk KW - Frankrike KW - Frankryk KW - Fransa KW - Fransa Respublikası KW - Franse KW - Franse Republiek KW - Frant͡ KW - Frant͡s Uls KW - Frant͡sii͡ KW - Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika KW - Frantsyi͡ KW - Franza KW - French Republic KW - Frencisc Cynewīse KW - Frenska republika KW - Furansu KW - Furansu Kyōwakoku KW - Gallia KW - Gallia (Republic) KW - Gallikē Dēmokratia KW - Hyãsia KW - Parancis KW - Peurancih KW - Phransiya KW - Pransiya KW - Pransya KW - Prantsusmaa KW - Pʻŭrangs KW - Ranska KW - República Francesa KW - Republica Franzesa KW - Republika Francuska KW - Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit KW - Republikang Pranses KW - République française KW - Tsarfat KW - Tsorfat KW - Emblemes KW - Livres d'emblemes francais KW - Histoire KW - 16e siecle KW - Renaissance UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1710 AB - The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism, the emblematic sign forms a bridge between late medieval allegory and the Romantic metaphor. These intricate combinations of picture and text, where the picture completes the ellipses of an epigrammatic text, and where the text fixes the intention of the pictured signs, provide useful clues to the way pictures in general were read and textual descriptions visualized in early modern Europe.Daniel Russell demonstrates how the emblematic forms emerged from the way illustrations were used in late medieval French manuscript culture, how the forms were later disseminated in France, and how they functioned within early modern French culture and society. He also attempts to show how the guiding principles behind the composition of emblems influenced the production of courtly decoration, ceremony, and propaganda, as well as the composition of literary texts as different as Maurice Sc¦ve's Delie, Montaigne's Essais, and Du Bartas's Sepmaine. ER -