Illustration and Ornamentation in the Iberian Book World, 1450-1800

Illustration and Ornamentation in the Iberian Book World, 1450-1800

Wilkinson, Alexander Samuel

Brill

11/2021

510

Dura

Inglês

9789004447134

15 a 20 dias

989

Notes on Contributors

List of Figures and Tables



Introduction

Alexander S. Wilkinson



PART I

Research Infrastructure



1. From Bibliography to Data Analytics, Convolutional Neural Networks and Image Recognition: The Journey of the Iberian Books Project

Alexander S. Wilkinson

2. An Introduction to the Database Printers' Devices of the University of Barcelona

Neus Verger Arce



PART II

Printers' Materials



3. Illustrating and Publishing on the Hand-Press in Spain from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century: The Ownership of Icono-Typographic Resources

Manuel-Jose Pedraza-Gracia

4. Woodcuts and Engravings in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Sources: a Starting-Point

Helena Carvajal Gonzalez

5. The Woodblocks and Initial Capitals used by Juan de Canova in Salamanca (1553-1569)

Isabel Cristina Diez Menguez

6. Engraved and Inhabited Initials used in Sixteenth-Century Mexican Printing

Guadalupe Rodriguez Dominguez



PART III

Describing Type and Identifying Printers



7. The Typefaces of Three Fifteenth-Century Castilian Printers: A Comparative Study

Benito Rial-Costas

8. Typography and illustration in fifteenth-century Salamanca: the Porras press

Maria Eugenia Lopez Varea

9. Chipped Old Blocks and Battered Old Type: Piracy in Golden-Age Spain

Don W. Cruickshank



PART IV

Illustrations



10. Visual Culture in the Hagiographies and Sacred Biographies of Early Modern Portugal

Paula Almeida Mendes

11. Book Illustration in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: the First Editions of the Siete Sabios de Roma

Nuria Aranda Garcia

12. Ornamentation in the Spanish editions of the Cronica Troyana, 1490-1587

Maria Sanz Julian

13. A Sixteenth Century Board Game by Joao de Barros

Celeste Pedro

14. Writ Large: Printing, Painting and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century America

Thomas Cummins

15. Illustration and Ornamentation in the Works of Luke Wadding, Seventeenth-Century Historian and Theologian

Benjamin Hazard

16. Illustrating a Family. The Printing Press and Political Issues in the Ritratti della Prosapia et Heroi Moncadi nella Sicilia

Domenico Ciccarello

17. A Vision of Political Discourse in Goa c.1659, and Two Episodes in the Circulation of Illustrated Manuscripts

Jeremy Roe & Angela Barreto-Xavier

18. Illustrating Golden Age Spanish Drama

Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo

19. Spanish Book Illustration and the Hijos de la Academia

Kelly Donahue-Wallace