Anja Wolkenhauer - Böcker

Als 1506 in Rom eine Statuengruppe entdeckt wurde, die einen Mann und zwei Knaben in der Umschlingung zweier Schlangen zeigte, fiel die Betitelung des Kunstwerks nicht schwer: Die Laokoonepisode war durch Vergil gut bekannt, die Existenz einer Statuengruppe dieses Themas durch den älteren Plinius bezeugt. Alsbald brach eine nur im kulturellen Kontext jener Jahre verständliche Erregung aus. Man pilgerte zum Fundort, kommentierte und bedichtete den Fund, um den viele Käufer konkurrierten, bis ihn Papst Julius II. für sich beanspruchte. Seit dem Juni 1506 bildet er eines der Prunkstücke der päpstlichen Kunstsammlungen.Der Tagungsband ist dem Laokoon-Thema in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Musik gewidmet. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt in der Stoffentfaltung und Wertung von Schuld und Verstrickung in den literarischen Gestaltungen der Antike (Arktinos; Sophokles, Vergil, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Dracontius), in Mittelalter und Renaissance (Trojaliteratur, Sadoleto) und in Berlioz’ Oper Les Troyens. Ein zweites zentrales Themenfeld bilden Rang und (Wirkungs-)Geschichte der Statuengruppe ‑ Schwerpunkte sind hier Ikonographie und Datierung, der Plinius-Kommentar, die Rezeption der Gruppe in medizinischen Handschriften, bei Primaticcio und bei Winckelmann.

This collection of specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the Early Modern printer's mark, a very productive Early Modern word-image so far only occasionally noted outside the domain of book history. This collection of 17 specially commissioned articles aims to shed light on the European printer’s mark, a very productive Early Modern word-image genre so far only occasionally noted outside the domain of book history. It does so from the perspectives of book history, literary history, especially emblem scholarship, and art history. The various contributions to the volume address issues such as those of the adoption of printer's devices in the place of the older heraldic printer's marks as a symptom of the changing self-image of the representatives of the Early Modern printing profession, of the mutual influence of emblems and printer's marks, of the place of Classical learning in the design of Humanist printer's marks, of the economic factors involved in the evolution of Early Modern printer's marks, the pictorial topics of the Early Modern printer's mark, and the printer's mark as a result of the 'Verbürgerlichung' of the device of Early Modern nobility. Special care was taken to account for the similarities and differences of the printer's marks produced and used in different regional and cultural contexts. The printer’s mark thus becomes visible as a European phenomenon that invites studying some of the most significant shared aspects of Early Modern culture. Preface/ Beginnings and Provenances: A. Wolkenhauer: Sisters, or Mother and Daughter? The Relationship between Printer’s Marks and Emblems during the First Hundred Years/ A. Bässler: Ekphrasis and Printer’s Signets/ L. Houwen: Beastly Devices: Early Printers’ Marks and Their Medieval Origins/ H. Meeus: From Nameplate to Emblem. The Evolution of the Printer’s Device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600/ Regions and Places: K. Sp. Staikos: Heraldic and Symbolic Printer’s Devices of Greek Printers in Italy (15th-16th century)/ A. Jakimyszyn-Gadocha: Jewish Printers’ Marks from Poland (16th-17th centuries)/ J. A. Tomicka: Fama typographica. In Search of the Emblem Form of Printer’s Devices. The Iconography and Emblem Form of Printer’s Devices in 16th- and 17th-Century Poland/ P. Hoftijzer: Pallas Nostra Salus. Early-Modern Printer’s Marks in Leiden as Expressions of Professional and Personal Identity/ D. Peil: Early Modern Munich Printer’s Marks (and Related Issues)/ K. Lundblad: The Printer’s Mark in Early Modern Sweden/ S. Hufnagel: Iceland’s Lack of Printer’s Devices: Filling a Functional and Spatial Void in Printed Books during the Sixteenth Century/ Concepts, Historical and Systematic: B.F. Scholz: The Truth of Printer’s Marks: Andrea Alciato On ‘Aldo’s Anchor’, ‘Froben’s Dove’ and ‘Calvo’s Elephant’. A Closer Look at Alciato’s Concept of the Printer’s Mark./ V. Hayaert: The Legal Significance and Humanist Ethos of Printers’ Insignia/ J. Kiliańczyk-Zięba: The Transition of the Printer’s Device from a Sign of Identification to a Symbol of Aspirations and Beliefs/ Judit Vizkelety-Ecsedy: Mottos in Printers’ Devices – Thoughts about the Hungarian Usage/ M. Simon: European Printers’ and Publishers’ Marks in the 18th Century. The Three C’s: Conformity, Continuity and Change/ B.F. Scholz: In Place of an Afterword: Notes on Ordering the Corpus of the Early Modern Printer’s Mark/ Research Bibliography: The Early Modern Printer’s Mark in its Cultural Contexts/ Index (Names, Places, Motti).