... emblem or impresa—a permanent but flexible sign of the subject’s externalized “hidden self.” Castiglione Baldassare Aretino Pietro authority clothing identity clothing as impresa imprese personal emblems architecture in monumentality demands of nobility authority and patronage...

... it the device of the impresa by placing above the head of his figure the line from the book of Job in the Latin Vulgate, warning that there is no power greater on the earth than Leviathan. This chapter considers what Vico thought of his frontispiece compared to that of Hobbes. It also discusses...

... the development of these verbal-visual tools from the late medieval period through the early seventeenth century by Italian art theorists and in the exemplary works of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare. Renaissance emblem word and image ekphrasis blason paragone impresa imprese pictorialism iconoclasm...

...Personal emblems (imprese) were intended to be enigmatic while still conveying information about the person to whom they referred. Yet the brief fashion for impresa books ultimately exposed the limitations of the personal emblem. Impresa literature...

... 38,427 22.5 37,596 26.3 35,915 23.5 Media Capital 12,511 8.7 14,118 8.3 12,963 9.1 12,802 8.4 Impala 39,367 27.3 49,942 29.3 31,859 22.3 36,341 23.8 Impresa 50,070 34.7 53,176 31.2 45,405 31.8 49,261...