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Author: Amy Burnette

Written by Amy BurnetteJanuary 1, 2016

The English Renaissance “Timeline”: Part III

“Habits of behavior begin with the control of the hand, with the formations of the hand.” – Jonathan Goldberg[1] In “The English Renaissance ‘Timeline’: Part II,” I discussed how I came upon the works of English Renaissance calligrapher Esther Inglis, specifically through her drawing of an emblem from Jean-Jacques Boissard’s Emblemes (1588). The emblem became

Written by Amy BurnetteDecember 23, 2015

The English Renaissance “Timeline”: Part II

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Last week, I discussed illustrations, or “drawings,” of printed media from Thomas Fella’s commonplace book with the aim of thinking more broadly about the relation between printed media, visual culture, and memory in Renaissance England. This week, I’d like to explore these ideas further by turning to the work of another English Renaissance calligrapher, Esther

Written by Amy BurnetteDecember 11, 2015

The English Renaissance “Timeline”

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“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” – Susan Sontag, On Photography In a post for her blog Brain Pickings, Maria Popova introduces the above quotation

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