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Iconophor
An Iconophor, in graphic and print art, is a form of illustration (usually book illustration) characterized by the fact that the names of the objects represented in it start with a given letter. Its origins lie in medieval Illuminated manuscript, illuminations, though the A-b-c-darian, abecedarian connection was usually coincidental in the Middle Ages. Etymologically, "iconophor" comes from Greek, meaning "bearer" or "transporter" (...phor) of image (ikono..). It seems that it was used formerly in Byzantine Christianity, to define an "icon bearer", in a direct or symbolic sense. The word iconophor was coined by Thora van Male, a French university professor; her book, ''Art Dico'', presents a historical panorama of the use of such illustrations in French dictionaries. She is currently working on a website to facilitate the study of iconophorsART DICO homepage . image:Diddal supp a445.JPG, Diderot & d'Alembert (suppl) A, right image:landais1 a.jpg, Landais (1834) A, right The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634–1718) was an Italian engraver and painter of the Baroque period. He was the son of the prominent quadratura painter Agostino Mitelli. The younger Mitelli was best known for his prolific engravings, in a great variety of subjects, including scenes from grand epics to mundane page boards for games of chance using dice, Tarot cards, and an Iconophor with anthropomorphized alphabets. He also engraved genre subjects, allegories, moralistic scenes, but even some bizarre cartoons that could be interpreted as sometimes provocatively subversive, or presciently revolutionary, and sometimes imaginatively bizarre. He often depicted dwarfs engaged in buffoonery or satirical depictions of aphorisms, which recalls the ''Bambocciate di nani'' or ''arte pigmeo'' of genre painter Faustino Bocchi (1659–1742). Giuseppe studied or worked under Francesco Albani, Flaminio Torri, Guercino, and Simone Cantarini; he had a long career of over 60 years in Bologna. Mitelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
