Time, modality and emblems

Prequisites: Basic knowledge of Renaissance culture
Objectives: To study the history of images that can express time
Description: A study of emblems books and of the history of scholarship on this point

Questions
RENAISSANCE EMBLEMS
Renaissance 'emblems' combine images and texts

 
  • The definition of an emblem

We can start form the literal definition of an emblem to move to the idea of  'emblematic'

  • The history of the study of emblems

Schools of scholars have studied iconology

 
EMBLEMS AND TIME
Emblems represent time and mode in different ways


  • Representing time in emblems

Emblems combine several notions in one

  • Emblems and modes

Emblems thus represent several moments, and also the idea of the potential or of the unreal
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