2nd Edition

An Introduction to Iconography Symbols, Allusions and Meaning in the Visual Arts

By Roelof van Straten Copyright 1994
    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    172 Pages
    by Routledge

    Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create meaning. The book presents the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of iconography and ICONCLASS, the comprehensive iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It gives particular emphasis to the history of iconography, personification, allegory, and symbols, and the literary sources that inform iconographic readings, and includes annotated bibliographies of books and journal articles from around the world that are associated with iconographic research. The author of numerous articles and a four-volume reference work on Italian prints, Roelof van Straten is currently working on an iconographic index covering the prints of Goltzius and his school.

    Part 1 Theoretical Section; Chapter 1 What Is Iconography?; Chapter 2 Personification; Chapter 3 Allegory; Chapter 4 Symbols, Attributes, and Symbolic Representations; Part 2 Practical Section; Chapter 5 Literary Sources of Subjects in Art; Chapter 6 Iconographic Handbooks and Photo Archives; Chapter 7 Iconclass: A New Method of Research in Iconography;

    Biography

    Roelof Van Straten, Patricia de Man

    "'...a very useful and astonishingly comprehensive little handbook. It is a model in clarity, excellently organized, and also graphically very clear.'." -- Wolfgang M. Freitag of Harvard University