La imagen de Fernando el Católico en la Historia, la Literatura y el Arte, Aurora Egido y José Enrique Laplana (eds.), Zaragoza, Institución Fernando el Católico (CSIC), 2014, 403 páginas [Reseña]

[Resumen] Reseña de una obra que aborda la imagen de Fernando el Católico transmitida a lo largo de la historia desde un enfoque multidisciplinar: emblemática, literatura, pensamiento político, arte, etc.[Abstract] Review of a work that addresses the transmitted image of Ferdinand the Catholic throughout history from a multidisciplinary approach: emblem studies, literature, political thought, art.

Companion to Emblem Studies, Ed. Peter M. Daly

Recenzja książki: Companion to Emblem Studies, ed. Peter M. Daly, New York AMS Press, Inc., 200

Juan Baños de Velasco y Acevedo - Emblems in Everyday Life

A research note on a new acquisition for the Stirling Maxwell Collection of Emblem Books, held at the Special Collections department of the University of Glasgow. This was part of a round table on various other items in this recent acquisition. This research note explores different perspectives that add value to this work, namely the close association of this Spanish work with D. Juan de Austria (its dedicatee) and Portugal

Review of \u3ci\u3eEmblems and Alchemy\u3c/i\u3e, by Alison Adams & Stanton J. Linden, eds.

Combining revived interest in both the emblem and alchemy, this volume is the third in a series of works on emblem studies published by the French Department at the University of Glasgow. Its ten essays, divided among three major categories entitled, “A Theoretical Perspectives”, “The English Alchemists”, and “Continental Manifestations”, stress inter disciplinarity as they explore the relationships between text, image, and alchemical practice. Broad in scope but detailed in its analyses, the compendium raises several intriguing questions about the correspondence between literature, art, and pseudo-science. Despite the diversity of its topics, the collection is often surprisingly unified in its discussion of authors, motifs, and themes. With the exception of some gaps in argumentation, Emblems and Alchemy makes a significant contribution not only to the field of emblematics, but to early modern studies

"Global emblems" and "Transmission and intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the early Americas"

Este libro blanco esboza brevemente dos iniciativas de investigación codependientes: “Emblemas globales” y “Transmisión e intermediación: el impacto de la cultura emblemática en Iberoamérica”. Ambos proyectos se encuentran en su etapa inicial de desarrollo, en la Brown University. “Global emblems” está diseñado para mapear, documentar y estudiar la presencia de emblemas en la cultura material, en todo el mundo, y vincular estos sucesos con colecciones digitales preexistentes de libros de emblemas. La base de datos será alimentada por una red internacional de especialistas, que ya está activa, con miembros en más de diez países y el apoyo de la Society for Emblem Studies. La plataforma permitirá búsquedas por conceptos (utilizando el sistema de clasificación Iconclass) y varias ubicaciones permitirán a los usuarios "visitarlas" a través de Realidad Virtual (360 fotos anotadas). La base de datos se estudiará sistemáticamente a través de "grupos temáticos". Si bien a primera vista el enfoque en los emblemas puede parecer estrecho, los emblemas tienen una amplia extensión geográfica e histórica, que se puede rastrear, y que proporciona los datos necesarios para el tipo de estudio analítico e interpretativo requerido en la segunda iniciativa de investigación, que ilustra la importancia de los emblemas en el marco más amplio de la historia cultural latinoamericana. “Transmisión e intermediación: el impacto de la cultura emblemática en las Américas tempranas” analizará los datos de “Emblemas globales” para comprender el papel de los emblemas en el proceso colonial en las Américas. Más concretamente, este proyecto abordará la “disputa pictórica” en el Nuevo Mundo, examinando el “giro pictórico” de los “catecismos jeroglíficos” a los emblemas exhibidos en el siglo XVII (muchos de ellos resultantes de la remediación de los grabados), y las implicaciones ideológicas, políticas y sociológicas en torno a la presencia de estos emblemas en edificios y festivales de principios de la era moderna.This white paper briefly outlines two co-dependent research initiatives: “Global Emblems” and “Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture in Ibero-America”. Both projects are in their initial stage of development, at Brown University. “Global Emblems” is set to map, document and study the presence of emblems in material culture, around the world, and cross-link these occurrences with pre-existing digital collections of emblem books. The database will be fed by an international network of specialists, which is already active, with members in over ten countries and the support of the Society for Emblem Studies. The platform will allow searches by concepts (using Iconclass classification system) and a number of locations will allow users to ‘visit’ them through Virtual Reality (360 annotated photos). The database will be systematically studied through “thematic clusters”. Although at first glance the focus on emblems may seem narrow, emblems have a broad geographical and historical spread, which can be traced, and that provides the necessary data for the kind of analytical and interpretative study required in the second research initiative, which illustrates the importance of emblems within the wider frame of Latin American cultural history. “Transmission and Intermediality: the impact of the emblematic culture on the Early Americas” will analyse the data from “Global Emblems” in order to understand the role of emblems in the colonial process in the Americas. More specifically, this project will look at the “pictorial dispute” in the New World, by examining the “pictorial turn” from the “catecismos jeroglíficos” to the displayed emblems in the 17th-century (many of them resulting from the remediation of European prints), and the ideological, political and sociological implications around the presence of these emblems in buildings and early-modern festivals.peerReviewe

Shakespeare

If scholarship devoted to the influence of emblematics on Cervantes is a relatively new field, the same cannot be said for Shakespeare. The study of the debt owed by Shakespeare to emblem books began in earnest over a century ago with the publication of Henry Green's pioneering Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of their Similarities of Thought and Expression. Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A.D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870). One constant in the approach of Shakespeare critics in their handling of possible emblematic influence is to urge caution and prudence when considering emblem literature as a possible source or influence on Shakespeare.Si la investigación dedicada a la influencia de la emblemática en Cervantes es un campo relativamente nuevo, no podemos decir lo mismo en relación a Shakespeare. El estudio de las deudas del dramaturgo con los libros de emblemas se remonta a más o menos un siglo, con la publicación del estudio pionero de Henry Green, Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of their Similarities of Thought and Expression. Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A.D. 1616 (Londres: Trübner and Co., 1870). Una constante del acercamiento de la crítica a este asunto siempre ha sido recomendar la mayor cautela y prudencia en la consideración de la literatura emblemática como fuente o influencia posible sobre los textos de Shakespeare