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This socio- and media-historical research on Peter Paul Rubens's title page design shows that he consciously developed its traditions. In collaboration with engravers and publishers, Rubens created 48 visual and intellectual masterpieces for a great variety of books which belonged in every seventeenth-century library of rank. His designs were not only advertisements for these works, but also for their authors and publishers, often Balthasar Moretus. Rubens's title pages were repeatedly copied, and their wide distribution contributed immensely to Rubens's fame as a learned artist, antiquarian, humanist and Catholic.

Book history --- title pages --- illustrations [layout features] --- Rubensgrafiek --- Moretus, Balthasar I --- Rubens, Peter Paul --- Title pages --- Illustration of books --- Book design --- History --- Rubens, Peter Paul,

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Gateways to the Book investigates the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages, many printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field from a great variety of academic approaches asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.

Art History --- Book History and Cartography --- Early Modern History --- Literature, Arts & Science --- Art --- History. --- Book history --- title pages --- frontispieces [illustrations] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Books --- Frontispiece --- Title pages --- Illustration of books --- Art History. --- Book History and Cartography. --- Early Modern History. --- Literature, Arts & Science. --- Frontispices --- Art history --- History of art --- 76: 655.5 Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst-:-Geïllustreerde boeken (boekillustraties) --- 76 "15/17" --- 76 "15/17" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Moderne Tijd --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Moderne Tijd --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers