Hieroglyph, Emblem, and Renaissance Pictography

The first English translation of Volkmann's Bilderschriften der Renaissance, the pioneering review of the influence of the hieroglyph on Renaissance culture, focused on the literature of emblem and device in Germany and France.

About the author

Robin Raybould (MA, LLM, Cambridge) is an independent scholar who specializes in Renaissance symbolic literature. He has recently published a translation of and commentary on Karl Giehlow's Hieroglyphenkunde (Brill 2015) describing the reception of hieroglyphics in the Italian Renaissance as well as The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century (Brill 2016) which describes the abrupt appearance of a new canon of the representation of the sibyls and their prophecies in the fifteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Ludwig Volkmann
• Assisted by: Robin Raybould (Editor), Robin Raybould (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2018
• EAN: 9789004360938
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36093-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 739 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history