Sidney and Junius on Poetry and Painting: From the Margins to the Center.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag weist minimale Randl�ren auf, au�rdem leicht berieben, sonst aber sauber und in gutem Zustand / dust jacket has minimal edgewear and is also slightly rubbed, but book is otherwise clean and in good condition. - Franciscus Junius the Younger (1590� 1677) is famous as virtually the founder of Germanic philology. He also composed an important and influential treatise on the art of painting as it is viewed in ancient literature. This was a commission from the Earl of Arundel�a famous collector of antiquities�whom he served as librarian. It is the relationship between this treatise, The Painting of the Ancients, and his annotations to the works of Sir Philip Sidney that is the focus of this book. Junius�s volume containing these works is in the University of Leiden Library; it is copiously annotated, in Latin, in Junius�s hand. Many of the same ancient authors that appear in The Painting of the Ancients (1638), his English translation of his De pictura veterum (1637), also figure in his annotations to Sidney. Like Sidney�s Defence of Poesie, Junius was composing a defense of art against attacks by puritans and other iconoclasts. Dundas�s book shows how ut pictura poesis, the analogy between poetry and painting, was at the center of both these defenses. The Introduction offers a brief account of Junius�s life and interests, which encompassed not only the philological but the artistic, all held within a coherent view of a divinely ordered universe. Chapter 1 considers Junius�s purpose in his annotation of texts concerned with English literature. In the next chapter, Dundas proceeds to his defense of art and how English poets contributed to this. The next three chapters deal with Junius�s use of ancient authors, both poets and prose writers, in his treatise and in his annotations. With chapter 6, Dundas turns to Junius�s narrative summaries and his rhetorical glosses in the margins of Sidney�s Arcadia. Underlinings, as well as these glosses, indicate his rhetorical interests. Finally, in chapter 7, Dundas explores, with the help of his own parallels between poetry and painting, the unity of the arts and their sisterhood in memory. Here is the justification for Junius�s close study of Sidney. Through his annotations, as well as through quotations in his treatise, the reception of this sixteenth-century poet in the seventeenth century is illuminated. At the same time, this study gives a fresh perspective on art theory in the Renaissance. Two appendices treat ancient authors important to Junius�s theory of art: Longinus and the Philostrati and Calli- stratus. Although Sidney did not know their work, his understanding of the imagination�s role in invention is in keeping with theirs. / Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction 1. The Art of Annotation 2. English Poets and the Defense of Art 3. The Painted Poetry of Ovid 4. The Playfulness of Ancient Poets 5. The Laws of Nature and the Laws of Art 6. The Wit of Narrative 7. The Enriching of Memory and the Unity of the Arts Appendix 1 Longinus Appendix 2 The Philostrati and Callistratus Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780874139822