Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69159-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnberg’s visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this collection is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview of emblem studies, moving from strict iconological approaches to collaborations across methodologies and disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wade, Mara R.

Fletcher, Christopher D.

Schwenk, Andrew C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Nürnberg in the Seventeenth Century: Seeing an Early Modern City through Emblems

Christopher D. Fletcher

2 “Inscriptiones Picturæ et Emblemata”: How Nürnberg’s Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago

Mara R. Wade

3 The Exterior of Nürnberg’s Rathaus and the Art of Good Government

Jeffrey Chipps Smith

4 Images as Language: Dürer, the Triumphal Arch and the Emblem in Nürnberg

Thomas Schauerte

5 The Migration of Emblems through Nürnberg’s History: From Triumph to Civic Memory

Tamar Cholcman

6 Some Examples of Applied Arts from the Free Imperial City of Nürnberg

Silvia Glaser

7 Rem’s Emblemata Politica in Context. Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

Victoria Gutsche

8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629

Werner Wilhelm Schnabel

9 The Life of Dr. Georg Rem: Transcription and Translation of Siegmund Jakob Apin’s “VITA D. GEORGII REMI” 1721 (introduced by Mara. R. Wade)

Jessica R. Wells

10 Mapping the Hand and Scanning the Forehead: Embedding Knowledge in Astrological Images

Stephanie Leitch

11 Adding the Rötenbeck Manuscript to Emblematica Online, A Virtual Corpus for Research and Teaching

Timothy W. Cole

Über Autor(innen)

Mara R. Wade, Ph.D. (1985, University of Michigan) is professor emerita of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a past president (2020–22) of the Renaissance Society of America. She has published widely on emblems, court studies of Germany and Scandinavia, gender studies, and German literature and the arts in the early modern period. She is an associate editor of Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image and the PI for Emblematica Online.

Christopher D. Fletcher, Ph.D. (2015) is Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has published articles, book chapters, and co-edited volumes on religion and various forms of public engagement in medieval and early modern Europe, including emblems. He often shares the Newberry’s pre-1800 collections with the public through in-person collection presentations, exhibitions, social media, and digital resources.


Andrew C. Schwenk is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation focuses on imaginative travel and its relationship to social change in early modern German literature.