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bibliography

on dutch emblem books

Landwehr, J., Emblem and fable books printed in the Low Countries 1542-1813. A bibliography (third ed.; Utrecht 1988).

Porteman, K., Inleiding tot de Nederlandse emblemataliteratuur (Groningen 1977).

Porteman, K., "Nederlandse embleemtheorie van M. A. Gillis (1566) tot Jacob Cats (1618)" In: Vekeman, H., and J. Müller Hofstede, eds., Wort und Bild in der niederlondischen Kunst und Literatur des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Erftstadt 1984) 1-16.

##Porteman, K., "From sight to insight. The emblem in the Low Countries" In: The Low Countries (1993-94) 212-22.

Porteman, K., "The emblem as 'genus jocosum': theory and praxis (Jacob Cats and Roemer Visscher)" In: Emblematica: an interdisciplinary journal for emblem studies 8, II (1994) 243-60.



on roemer visscher and his daughters

Overdiep, G. S., "Roemer Visscher en zijn dochters" In: Idem, De letterkunde van de Renaissance tot Roemer Visscher en zijn dochters [Geschiedenis van de letterkunde der Nederlanden, vol. III] (Amsterdam 1949) 406-14.

Smits-Veldt, M. B., Maria Tesselschade. Leven met talent en vriendschap (Zutphen 1994).


on sinnepoppen

Brummel, L., ed., Roemer Visschers Sinnepoppen. Naar de uitgave van 1614 bij Willem Jansz. te Amsterdam (The Hague 1949).

Scholz, B., "De 'economische sector' in Roemer Visschers 'Sinnepoppen'" In: De zeventiende eeuw 6 (1990) 17-26.


on roemer visschers influence on art

##Schama, S., The embarrassment of riches. An interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age (London 1987).

Jongh, E. de, Questions of meaning: theme and motif in Dutch seventeenth-century painting (Leiden 2000).

For a different perspective: Alpers, S., The art of describing: Dutch art in the seventeenth century (Chicago 1983).


on the painters avercamp and ochtervelt

Blankert, A., et al., eds., Frozen silence. Paintings from museums and private collections (Amsterdam 1982) [on Hendrik and Barent Avercamp].

Kuretsky, S. D., The paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt, 1634-1682 (Oxford 1979).


some interesting links

  • @www.mun.ca/alciato, [English-language website of the Memorial University of Newfoundland on the first emblem book, Alciato's Emblematum Liber (Augsburg 1531)].
  • @www2.let.uu.nl/emblems, [Multilingual website of the Emblem Project Utrecht, offering digital versions of several Dutch love emblem books].
  • @www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk, [Website of the Centre of Emblem Studies, University of Glasgow].

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