Civic virtues were central to early modern Nürnbergs visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nürnberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this collection is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview of emblem studies, moving from strict iconological approaches to collaborations across methodologies and disciplines.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Nürnberg in the Seventeenth Century: Seeing an Early Modern City through
Emblems
Christopher D. Fletcher
2 Inscriptiones Picturę et Emblemata: How Nürnbergs Town Hall Emblems Came
to the Newberry Library, Chicago
Mara R. Wade
3 The Exterior of Nürnbergs Rathaus and the Art of Good Government
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
4 Images as Language: Dürer, the Triumphal Arch and the Emblem in Nürnberg
Thomas Schauerte
5 The Migration of Emblems through Nürnbergs History: From Triumph to Civic
Memory
Tamar Cholcman
6 Some Examples of Applied Arts from the Free Imperial City of Nürnberg
Silvia Glaser
7 Rems Emblemata Politica in Context. Political Emblem Books in the First
Half of the Seventeenth Century
Victoria Gutsche
8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata
Curialia Auctiora of 1629
Werner Wilhelm Schnabel
9 The Life of Dr. Georg Rem: Transcription and Translation of Siegmund Jakob
Apins VITA D. GEORGII REMI 1721 (introduced by Mara. R. Wade)
Jessica R. Wells
10 Mapping the Hand and Scanning the Forehead: Embedding Knowledge in
Astrological Images
Stephanie Leitch
11 Adding the Rötenbeck Manuscript to Emblematica Online, A Virtual Corpus
for Research and Teaching
Timothy W. Cole
Mara R. Wade, Ph.D. (1985, University of Michigan) is professor emerita of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a past president (202022) of the Renaissance Society of America. She has published widely on emblems, court studies of Germany and Scandinavia, gender studies, and German literature and the arts in the early modern period. She is an associate editor of Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image and the PI for Emblematica Online.
Christopher D. Fletcher, Ph.D. (2015) is Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has published articles, book chapters, and co-edited volumes on religion and various forms of public engagement in medieval and early modern Europe, including emblems. He often shares the Newberrys pre-1800 collections with the public through in-person collection presentations, exhibitions, social media, and digital resources.
Andrew C. Schwenk is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation focuses on imaginative travel and its relationship to social change in early modern German literature.
