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History of ideas
 9 other titles

Legenda: Oxford, 2003
£35.00 ($65.00 US)  Paperback  256pp
With 21 illustrations
ISBN: 1-900755-69-6

What was the role of images in the Western tradition? And how did they relate to the printed work? The essays in this wide-ranging collection address these questions by presenting a variety of material, including visual representations that can be read as texts and traditional book illustrations.

The editors offer a critical review of visual arts and texts, encompassing thirteenth-century Spanish miniatures, Italian Renaissance painting and book illustrations, the explosion of inter-arts comparisons in the nineteenth century in the works of such diverse writers as Blake, Mallarmé and D’Annunzio, and the modern debate on the visual arts.

Antonella Braida is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Durham. Giuliana Pieri is Lecturer in Italian and Visual Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.

With the contributions:

Catherine Whistler — A Renaissance Enigma: Piero di Cosimo’s Forest Fire
J. J. L. Whiteley — Delacroix and Literature
Kirstin Kennedy — On Chess, Chests and Kingship: Two Miniatures of Alfonso X of Castile in the Libros de acedrex, dados e tablas (1283)
Julian Brooks — Early Illustrations of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata
Antonella Braida — The Literalism of William Blake’s Illustrations to the Divine Comedy
Giuliana Pieri — D’Annunzio, his Illustrators and Italian Pre-Raphaelitism
Ben Thomas — ‘The art consists of hiding the art’: Castiglione and Raphael
Luisa Calè — ‘The vantage-ground of abstraction’: Charles Lamb on Reading and Viewing
Rachael Langford — Graphic Revolutions: The Role of the Pictorial in Jules Vallès’s Jacques Vingtras Trilogy
Damian Catani — Visual and Textual Synergy in Stéphane Mallarmé
Martin Gaughan — Art/History between the Linguistic and Pictorial ‘Turns’