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Karl-Ludwig Selig (Editor), Elizabeth Sears (Editor)

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093497747X 978-0934977470 September 29, 2008
History of art, iconography, emblemata and symbol. Includes: Elizabeth Sears, Foreword and Bibliography of Recent Works of William Sebastian Heckscher; Frank Baron, "From Witchcraft to Doctor Faustus"; Jan Bialostocki, "The Dichotomy of Good and Evil in the Visual Arts: Remarks on Some Aspects"; Virginia W. Callahan, "The Erasmus-Hercules Equation in the Emblems of Alciati"; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, "Arcimboldo's Serious Jokes: 'Mysterious but Long Meaning'"; Lubomír Konecny, "'L'accord interrompu': An Emblematic Source for Mathieu Le Nain"; Carl Nordenfalk, "The Sense of Touch in Art"; Martin Ostwald, "On Interpreting Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus"; Charles Parkhurst, "Roger Bacon on Color: Sources, Theories, and Influence"; Karl-Ludwig Selig, "Don Quixote and the Game of Chess"; Egon Verheyen, "The Triumphal Arch on the Lido: On the Reliability of Eyewitness Accounts"; Michael Vickers, "Wandering Stones: Venice, Constantinople, and Athens." 270 pages, 47 illustrations. Preface, bibliography, index.

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sight gags, imperial theme, Hélène Adhémar, multiplications specierum, multiplicatione specierum, middle colors, festival designs, west pediment, serious jokes, devil pact, principal species, principal colors
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New York, Five Senses, Dietrich Flade, Roger Bacon, Don Quixote, Clarendon Press, Faust Book, The Arcimboldo Effect, The Sense of Touch, Little Red Ridinghood, Andrea Alciati, British Library, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Sancho Panza, Last Judgment, Rocco de Benedetti, Robert Grosseteste, Middle Ages, Solomon's Temple, Loeb Classical Library, Jean Bodin, Mathieu Le Nain, Princeton University Press, Church of San Marco, The Hague
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