Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art /

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Author / Creator:	Cohen, Simona.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxix, 316 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 169. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 2 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 169. Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 2.
Subject:	Animals in art. Animals -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe. Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives. Animals in art. Animals -- Symbolic aspects. Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives. Europe.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11202650

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ISBN:	9789047424321 9047424328 1282400142 9781282400146 9786612400148 6612400145 9789004171015 9004171010
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Demonstrates the continuity and tenacity of medieval animal interpretations and symbolism, disguised under the veil of genre, religious or mythological narrative and scientific naturalism. This work illustrates the ways in which Renaissance artists revived conventional animal imagery in unprecedented contexts.
Other form:	Print version: Cohen, Simona. Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004171015
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004171015.i-319

Table of Contents:

Medieval sources of Renaissance animal symbolism
Renaissance naturalists and animal symbolism : fact and fantasy
Emblematic literature and related sources
The birds and animals of Carpaccio's Miles Christianus
The enigma of Carpaccio's Venetian ladies
Animals in the paintings of Titian : a key to hidden meanings
Titian's London allegory and the three beasts of his Selva oscura
Animal heads and hybrid creatures : the case of the San Lorenzo Lavabo and its sources
Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the harpies and the human-animal hybrid in the Renaissance
The ambivalent scorpio in Bronzino's London allegory.

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