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Brilliant Discourse : Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome by Evelyn Lincoln (2014, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300204191

ISBN-139780300204193

eBay Product ID (ePID)175698371

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBrilliant Discourse : Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome

SubjectArchaeology, Book, History, Graphic Arts / Illustration, Books & Reading

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Design, Social Science, Science

AuthorEvelyn Lincoln

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight45 Oz

Item Length1 in

Item Width0.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2013-033954

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'Evelyn Lincoln's lucid, imaginative, and well-researched volume provides reassurance. . .because she has found a significant niche in which the material object and the cultural object are inextricable. . .The illustrated book becomes, in the figurative if not the literal sense, a work in three dimensions. Which in the end is true of Brilliant Discourse itself, a beautifully produced volume with a richly multivalent interplay of picture and word.'--Leonard Barkan, Art Newspaper

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal096.10945632

SynopsisSixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints, and the order of the cosmos, they made esoteric knowledge accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. Many of these books were illustrated with beautiful etchings, engravings, or woodcuts, and some were written in the form of theatrical and engaging dialogues. For writers, publishers, printers, and artists, bringing such books into the world changed the lives of those involved in their production. The process of publication, a risky business in itself, forged lively social networks centered on making and reading these treatises. Brilliant Discourse follows the story of the Roman illustrated book from the printed page back out to the Renaissance streets, piazzas, palaces, convents, and bookshops where these expensive publications, carefully shepherded through the press, acted in the real world to create lively communities of readers and viewers.

LC Classification NumberZ1023.L75 2014