Gateways to the Book

Gitta Bertram teaches art history at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (Germany). She has published a monograph, translations and articles on early modern title pages, including Peter Paul Rubens as a Designer of Title Pages (2018).Nils Büttner teaches art history at the State Academy of Arts Stuttgart and specialises in the visual culture of Germany and the Netherlands from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. He has published monographs and articles on Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer, as well as the history of landscape painting and the history of drawings and prints. He has also written numerous catalogue essays, and has served as a curator for several museum exhibitions.Claus Zittel teaches German literature and philosophy at the Universities of Stuttgart (Germany) and Venice (Italy). He is Deputy Director of the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies and of the Bembo Laboratory at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and has published monographs, translations and articles pertaining to early modern culture, including Theatrum Philosophicum. Descartes und die Rolle ästhetischer Formen in der Wissenschaft (Akademie 2009).

"This volume offers a wealth of detail with broad overviews and case studies. It is useful for the large number of illustrated title pages it reproduces, and the general and bibliographical information it provides about the early modern illustrated title page." - Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 2024), pp. 703–704

• List of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces – IntroductionGitta Bertram, Nils Büttner and Claus ZittelPART 1: The Culture of the Frontispiece2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title PagesGitta Bertram3 Minerva in the Printshop: Publisher’s Advertising in Frontispieces and the Media Presence of Early Modern Printer-PublishersLea Hagedorn4 The Frontispiece Portrait and Its Critics: Visual and Verbal Tactics for Undermining the Social Productivity of Printed Portraits in Early Modern Scholarly CultureHole RößlerPART 2: The Frontispiece between Art and Science5 The Poetological Frontispiece in 17th-Century German PoetryClaus Zittel6 Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & Co.: Frontispieces and Title Woodcuts in Music Theory Prints and Musical Textbooks around 1500Fabian Kolb7 Visualising the Constitution of Art: Frontispieces in “Kunstliteratur” in the Early Modern PeriodConstanze Keilholz8 When Mars Meets Euclid: The Relationship between War and Mathematical Sciences in Frontispieces of Fortification TreatisesDelphine Schreuder9 Travels towards Humankind’s Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th–18th CenturiesCornel ZwierleinPART 3: Case Studies10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century BaselMiranda L. Elston11 Rubens’s Legacy in Book DesignNils Büttner12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht’s Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists’ Education in AnatomyAlice Zamboni13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci XaveriiAlison C. Fleming14 Juan Ricci de Guevara’s Introduction of Wise PaintingMartijn van Beek15 The Architectural Folios of Jeremias WolffDaniel Fulco16 Monumental Elements in Early 18th-Century Book Illustration: Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the Illustrated Editions of the Works of Edmund WallerMalcolm BakerIndex Nominum