Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629

Werner Wilhelm Schnabel

Jump to Content

Chapter 8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629

In: Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Author:

Werner Wilhelm Schnabel

Werner Wilhelm Schnabel
Search for other papers by Werner Wilhelm Schnabel in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed

Type:: Chapter

Pages:: 197–247

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004691605_009

Purchase instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):

€42.00€35.00 excl. VAT

Add to Cart

Redeem Access Token

Abstract

Like the famous edition by Rem and Isselburg, the Nürnberg Rathaus emblems have also been the object of literary appreciation and continuation. In contrast the “Emblemata curialia auctiora” from 1629, written by the religious refugee Johann Conrad Rhumelius (1574–1630) from the Upper Palatinate, remains largely understudied. The medical doctor Rhumelius made a name for himself publishing paraphrases of the Bible, and other topics. After an eventful life, he arrived in the Imperial City, where he had fostered close contacts for decades. In his continuation of the Rathaus emblems he treated not only the original thirty-two painted emblems and those Isselburg had engraved by 1619, but also supplemented them with forty-five “emblemata nuda” (that is, nude emblems, or ones without picturæ) which create a meaningful connection between a suggestive lemma, an imagined pictorial motif (only hinted at in the subscriptio), and its literary interpretation. Through the investigation of their themes, it becomes clear that these emblems, which were presented to those in power as examples and rules of clever, cautious, and farsighted leadership, also refer to contemporary political events and developments and, in particular, were influenced by Rhumelius’s unfortunate biographical and political experiences.

Citation Info

Save
Cite
Email this content

Share link with colleague or librarian

You can email a link to this page to a colleague or librarian:
Email this content
or copy the link directly:

https://brill.edhh.ma/abstract/book/9789004691605/BP000017.xml
The link was not copied. Your current browser may not support copying via this button.

Link copied successfully

Collapse
Expand

Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg

Series: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 73

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004691605

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 29 Feb 2024

Subjects

Front Matter

Back Matter

Metrics

	All Time	Past 365 days	Past 30 Days
Abstract Views	787	222	59
Full Text Views	14	10	4
PDF Views & Downloads	12	11	4

African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

Subjects

Authors

Open Access

Product Information

Company

Contact

Chapter 8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629

Abstract

Citation Info

Share link with colleague or librarian

Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg

Table of Contents

Metrics

Metrics