The project  focuses on the study and comparison of a number of illustrated books published from roughly 1480 to 1600 in the city of Lyon, in order to understand the role that the creation and circulation of printed illustrations had in shaping a common iconographic repertoire of images.  The number of books printed in the city during the sixteenth century is around 25000, of which we estimate that at least 2000 are illustrated, starting from the Mirouer de la Redemption de l’Humaine Lignage (Huss, 1478), the first illustrated book printed in France. The overall objective of the project is to gain a deeper understanding of the iconographic trends developed during the sixteenth century in Lyon to fill the existing gap on which kind of printed repertoire of images were printed and published in the city during the Renaissance period.

Indexing the Early Modern Printed Image (Venice University Press, 2024)

http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-879-8