Main entry:

Wittkower, Rudolf.

Title & Author:

Allegory and the migration of symbols / Rudolf Wittkowker.

Publication:

London : Thames and Hudson, ©1977.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

The Collected essays of Rudolf Wittkower

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
East and West : the problem of cultural exchange -- Eagle and serpent -- Marvels of the East : a study in the history of monsters -- Marco Polo and the pictorial tradition of the marvels of the East -- "Roc" : an eastern prodigy in a Dutch engraving -- Chance, time and virtue -- Patience and chance : the story of a political emblem -- Hieroglyphics in the early Renaissance -- Transformations of Minerva in Renaissance imagery -- Titian's allegory of "religion succoured by Spain" -- El Greco's language of gesture -- Death and resurrection in a picture by Marten de Vos -- "Grammatica" : from Martianus Capella to Hogarth -- Interpretation of visual symbols.

Summary:

"This book has a taxonomy of sets of similar symbols with which the history of their locations, uses, and meanings can be put together to see the whole. Well researched and written/translated. Not a dictionary of symbols with definitions, or even an encyclopedia - more like a collection of specific histories."--Amazon.
Fourteen essays written between 1937 and 1970.

ISBN:

0500850046
9780500850046
0500274703 (pbk)
9780500274705

Subject:

Allégorie
Europa
Allegory.
Symbolism in art.
Allegories.
Allégories.
Symbolisme dans l'art.
allegory (artistic device)
Geschichte
Kunst
Symbol
Aufsatzsammlung
Beeldende kunsten.
Allegorieën.
Symbolen.
Klassieke oudheid.
Renaissance.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Allegories.
Allégories.

Added entries:

The Collected essays of Rudolf Wittkower.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 12365
Call No.: ID:87-B14512
Status: Available