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Item Number: 133423
Title: The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs in the Allegorical Studies of the Renaissance : With a Focus on the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I
Author: Giehlow, Karl ; Robin Raybould (trans.)
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ISBN: 9789004281721
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2015. 23cm., hardcover, 352pp., 111 illus. Summary: The Hieroglyphenkunde by Karl Giehlow published in 1915, described variously by critics as “a masterpiece”, “magnificent”, “monumental” and “incomparable”, is here translated into English for the first time. Giehlow’s work, focusing on the Italian literature of allegory and symbolism, was a pioneering attempt to introduce the thesis that Egyptian hieroglyphs had a fundamental influence on the evolution of all Renaissance art. The translation by Raybould and his notes bring the work up to date. Raybould has greatly augmented Giehlow’s original text, which resulted in an important piece of historical scholarship. This edition includes the illustrations of Dürer from the Pirckheimer translation of the Horapollo, the manuscript of which was discovered by Giehlow.
Contents: Chapter 1 · Scope and aim of the study
Chapter 2 · The hieroglyphs of the Italian humanists. Chapter 3 · Hieroglyphs on the Egyptian monuments known in Rome in the XVth century. Chapter 4 · Fra Francesco Colonna and his hieroglyphs. Chapter 5 · Hieroglyphic studies in the Italian cinquecento. Chapter 6 · The Hieroglyphica of Pierio Valeriano Bolzano: a life’s work. Chapter 7 · The hieroglyphic origins of the Emblemata of Alciato. Chapter 8 · The hieroglyphics of the German and French humanists. Appendices and bibliography.
(Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 240. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, 16)
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