Porteman, Karel: Emblematic exhibitions at the Brussels Jesuit College (1630-1685) - A study of the commemorative manuscripts
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This monograph is a study of the series of seventeenth century emblem manuscripts with more than two thousand drawings and poems with which the Jesuits used to commend the quality of their education system to the outside world, now owned by the Royal Library of Belgium. The Brussels collection (some forty volumes) is unique and special. It covers the production of a single college during a long span of time (1630-1685). The high artistic as well as literary quality which the volumes so often achieve lends the collection moreover a rare distinction: wonderful gouaches (by Antoon Sallaert), no less splendid calligraphy (e.g. byG.H. Wilmart) and sophisticated, erudite Latin and Greek verses.
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| Category: | Books > Book history, typography > |
| Category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > |
| Category: | Books > Arts > Fine Arts > exhibition catalog > |
| Category: | Books > Arts > Art album > |
| Publisher: | Royal Library & Turnhout, [1996]. Brussels, |
| Item number / ISBN: | 0067344 |
| Binding: | paperback |
| Page count: | 198, [1] p. |
| Item language: | English |