Hieroglyph, emblem, and Renaissance pictography / by Ludwig Volkmann ; translated and edited by Robin Raybould.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Contents; Translator's Preface; List of Illustrations; Author's Introduction; Chapter 1 The Hieroglyphics of the Italian Humanists; Excursus 1: On the Images in the Gran Chiostro of San Giustina and those in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; Chapter 2 Emblematics and Its Derivatives: Imprese and Devices; Excursus 2: On the Origin of Alciato's Emblemata; Excursus 3: On Hoes; Chapter 3 Hieroglyphics North of the Alps; Excursus 4: On the Origin of Aldus' Printers Mark and the Motto festina lente; Excursus 5: On the Symbola of Pythagoras and Alciato's Emblem "Do not sit on a bushel."

Excursus 6: Philosophia comite regredimurChapter 4 Resonances from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Appendix: Hieroglyphs and Emblems in Printers and Publishers Marks (Signeten); Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Hieroglyphs, Emblems and Devices

Robin Raybould's Hieroglyph, Emblem and Renaissance Pictography is the first English translation of Ludwig Volkmann's Bilderschriften der Renaissance , the classic text which promoted the symbol as a defining cultural and literary characteristic of early modern Europe. Volkmann enumerates and describes many of the works which illustrated the contemporary obsession with hieroglyph, emblem and device, particularly those from France and Germany, thus complementing Karl Giehlow's earlier Hieroglyphenkunde on the subject. Volkmann's book highlights both Renaissance theories of the image as language and the symbol as an aid to an understanding of the meaning of life and the nature of God. Raybould's translation has been described as elegant, admirable and impeccable and includes an introduction, extensive notes and several additional essays on topics relevant to the field.

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