Learned Love

by Stronks, Els

• ISBN13: 9789069845104
• ISBN10: 9069845105
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Edita Pub House of the Royal

Summary

Emblem books, which feature combinations of images and text with a moral lesson for the reader, grew out of the Renaissance and were most popular in the Netherlands. Enigmatic, erudite, and often pious, Dutch love emblems synthesized the traditions of European visual and literary artsand in turn influenced architecture, painting, poetry, and interior design for centuries to come. Learned Loveoffers an introduction to this enthralling genre and celebrates the completion of Emblem Project Utrecht, an undertaking that digitized twenty-five of the most representative emblem books. This unprecedented volume explores the delicate network of visual motifs and textual mottos that characterize Dutch love emblems.Learned Lovedemonstrates how emblem books form a web of closely interrelated references, which the contributors liken to the Internet, and traces the cutting-edge digitization project from inception to finish. This book will interest anyone intrigued by the fruitful gray areas between image and text, scholarship and technology.

Author Biography

Els Stronks is a senior researcher and teacher in the Department of Dutch Studies at Utrecht University.
Peter Boot is a humanities computing consultant at the e-Research department of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Huygens Institute.

 

 

Table of Contents

The Dutch love emblem on the Internet: an introduction

The Dutch love emblem

Creator of the earliest collection of love emblems?

Commonplaces of Catholic love

Encoding the emblematic tradition of love

Churches as indicators of a larger phenomenon

The Spanish epigrams in Vaenius'sAmoris divini emblemata

Love emblems and a web of intertextuality

TheAmbacht van Cupidofrom 1615 in Wroclaw (Poland)

Investing in your relationship

The love emblem applied

The digitisation of the emblem

The Emblem Project Utrecht as a knowledge site

Traditional editorial standards and the digital edition

The technical backbone of the Emblem Project Utrecht

Digitising Dutch love emblems

Setting the emblem schema to work

Mesotext

Framing and exploring annotations

Peter Boot

Colour plates

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