Walter Melion

Stijn Bussels

Gijs Versteegen

This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.

Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts

Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century

Caroline A. van Eck

Jürgen Pieters

Caroline Van Eck

Maarten Delbeke

The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800.

The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in Rhetoric, the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre

Translations of the Sublime

Stijn Bussels

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