Notice: This is an informal bibliography. No bibliographical guidelines
or methodologies have been employed.
On French Renaissance Art
Henri Zerner, Renaissance Art in
France: The Invention of Classicism
Paris, Flammerion, 2003 (English translation)
Henri Zerner, The School of
Fontainebleau: Etchings and Engravings, Abrams, New York, 1969.
On Bernard Salomon:
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Peter Sharratt, Bernard Salomon (Illustrateur Lyonnais)
Geneva, Libraire Droz, 2005
Most recent and complete survey of Salomon’s work and documentation.
Best and most complete bibliography, Excellent list of attributions,
Finely selected representative images reproduced.
Rebecca Zorach, Review of Peter Sharratt’s Bernard Salomon
Renaissance Quarterly, Fall 2006
Natalie Rondot, Natalis Rondot, Bernard Salomon, Peintre et
Tailleur d'Histoires A Lyon, Au XVIc Siècle,
Imprimerie Mougin-Rusand, 1896
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Renée Loche, Bernard Salomon, Peintre et tailleur d’histoires:
Illustrations pour l’Ancien Testament, Geneva, 1969. Good introduction and
exquisite reproductions. Includes rice-paper strikings of extant de
Tournes OT woodblocks. Edition limited to 400 copies. Rare. Available at
NYPL Print Room Room.
See also, Antoine du Verdier, below.
Under "Bernard Salomon" and "Le Petit Bernard."
Bibliographical Catalogues:
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Robert Brun, Le Livre Français illustré de la Renaissance
(Etude suivie du Catalogue des principaux livres a figures du XVIe Siècle)
Paris, Editions A. et I. Picard, 1969
More recent (and hopefully updated) editions have been published.
See especially chapter V (on Denis Janot) and following chapters,
including those on Lyon and Bernard Salomon.
Alfred Cartier, Bibliographie des Editions des De Tournes, Imprimeurs
Lyonnais
Paris, Èditions des Bibliothèques Nationale de France, 1937-38.
NYPL link:
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Baudrier, Bibliographie Lyonnaise … In 12 or 13 volumes,
Paris, F. de Noble, reproduced 1964 (orig 1895-1921)
NYPL: Persistent link to
this record There is a supplemental volume also.
Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Part 1: French 16th century books;
compiled by Ruth Mortimer. (in 2 volumes)
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964
NYPL:
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Many useful discussions and bits of art historical insights on Salomon.
There is also a catalogue for Italian Illustrated Books of the
Renaissance.
Du Verdier, Antoine, La Bibliothèque
française, 1585.
Useful guide to French 16th-century published work. Du Verdier was a
librarian to François Ier.
Don't miss the articles on Bernard Salomon.
(Bibliothèque d'Ant. Duverdier, contenant le catalogue de tous
les auteurs qui ont écrit en français, 1585, ouvrage de bibliographie
précieux, qui a été réimprimé en 1772-1773 avec celui de
La Croix du Maine.)
Selected Studies:
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Betsy Rosasco, A Sixteenth-Century Limoges Enamel Tazza Illustrating
the Jugement of Moses. (Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the
Calvinist Tradition), Paul Corby Finney, ed., Grand Rapids, Michigan,
1999.
For an example of how Salomon’s images were used, but more importantly,
contains useful notes and bibliography on Salomon and the use of his works
as a kind of emblem literature.
Svetlana Alpers, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada (Corpus
Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part IX), Phaidon, NY 1971.
For Rubens’ use of Bernard Salomon’s illustrations to the Metamorphosis of
Ovid.
Donald Stone, "La Métamorphose d'Ovide figurée de Bernard Salomon:
quelques sources." Nouv. Estampe, Fr. (1974), no 15, 10-12 (10
figs.) --Rép d'art 1975, no. 2290.
Natalie Zemon Davis. Protestantism and the Printing Workers of Lyons: A
Study in the problem of religion and social class during the Reformation.
Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1959
S P J Rawles, Denis Janot : Parisian printer and bookseller.
Thesis/dissertation; English
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University Microfilms International, 1976.
Dissertation: Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Warwick, 1976
OCLC: 150887385
RAB: I haven't seen this item.
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. The Printing
Press as an Agent of Change
(Communications and cultural transofrmations in early-modern Europe (2
vols.)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979
Erwin Panofsky. Problems in Titian:
Mostly Iconographic (The Wrightsman Lectures), New York University Press,
1969. (Ch VI, "Titian and Ovid," p. 139.
References the Métaphorses d'Ovide figurée by Bernard Salomon, as
follows: Actaeon (p. 157, 163); Andromeda (p. 167f.; Callisto (p. 159);
Europa (p. 165); Venus and Adonis (p. 152).
Erwin Panofsky. Meaning in the Visual
Arts: Papers in and on Art History. Doubleday Anchor Books. On the "Rape
of Europa," see p. 52ff.
On Emblems and Emblemata:
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Resources for Scholarly Work on English Emblem Books
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/research.htm
Glasgow University Emblem Website:
http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/
French Emblemata:
http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/french/
Glasgow University Emblem Book Website
This site specializes in French emblematic texts. Glasgow
University holds the Stirling Maxwell Collection of Emblem Books, the
largest such collection in the world.
Alciato's Book of Emblems: The Memorial Web Edition in Latin and English.
Provides the Latin text and images from a significant edition of
1621 and gives an English translation. Also contains links to other
useful sites and resources.
Greek Epigrammatists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Epigrammatists
Horapollo hieroglyphs:
http://www.studiolum.com/en/cd08-horapollo.htm
English Emblem Book Project
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/biblio.htm
Claude Paradin,
Devises Heroïques
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/sm816/index.html
Barbrius and Phaedrus
Ben Edwin Perry, tr. ed. (The Loeb Classical
Library 436), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1965.
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On Celebrations, Triumphal Entries, etc.
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The Entry of Henri II into Lyon: September 1548
(Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, V. 160)
by Maurice Scève, Richard Cooper, ed.
The Entry of Henri II into Paris, 16 June 1549.
Intro, and Notes by I.D. McFarlane. Published by the Center for
Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York,
Binghamton, 1982. Contains bibliography on studies on Triumphal Entries in
France.
Papers in English and French, originally given at an interdisciplinary
symposium held at Smith College, Oct. 22-23, 2004. French Ceremonial
Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text
By Hélène Visentin, Nicolas Russell, Victoria University (Toronto,
Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Contributor Victoria University
Edition: illustrated
Published by Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007
ISBN 0772720339, 9780772720337
275 pages.
See further:
http://books.google.com/books?id=jDBR7-0b6ZoC and, within the above:
The Entries of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese Carpentras , Jacopo
Sadoleto , Comtat Venaissin
Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque,
vol. (Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, volume
VI) Part 1: Triumphal Celebrations and the Rituals of Statecraft. Part 2:
Theatrical Spectacle and Spectacular Theater. 1990
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On Books and Book Arts:
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A Glossary of terms used to
describe books
from the IOBA (the Independent Online Booksellers Association).
Miscellaneous Items and Tools
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The
Travels of Sir John Mandeville (originally ca. 1357)
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues,
Compiled by Randle Cotgrave (originally), London 1611.
(My copy, intro, William S. Woods,
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1968
Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_SEARCH/search010arearenrefemblembksa.asp
Sanjeev’s Art and Letters Archive
(includes Latin phrases and translations)
http://www.sanjeev.net/index.html
Works by Robert Baron:
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For a Bernard Salomon historical bibliography, see
http://www.studiolo.org/BSProject/BSBibliography.htm
For the start of an extended study on Bernard Salomon:
http://www.studiolo.org/BSProject/BSindex.htm
On the Aesop (Esope) Cycle
http://www.studiolo.org/BSProject/BSEditionsAesop.htm
On the Old Testament Cycle
http://www.studiolo.org/BSProject/BIBLE/JOSHUA/Joshua-Peek.htm
Robert Baron's Links: Art History pages |
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