Blood, milk, ink, gold : abundance and excess in the French Renaissance /
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Author / Creator: | Zorach, Rebecca, 1969- |
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Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. |
Description: | xvi, 314 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 has original dust jacket. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5786612 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: Figures of Excess
- Chapter 1. Incomprehensible Abundance? An Introduction
- Chapter 2. Blood
- Sacrifice and Generation at Fontainebleau
- The Galerie Francois Premier
- Iconology
- Fontainebleau Nova Pandora
- Death and Rebirth
- The Death of Adonis
- The Aesthetics of Sacrifice
- Impossible Bodies
- Chapter 3. Milk
- Visual Rhetorics
- Nature/France
- Cybele and Artemis
- Fertile Gaul's Fat Breasts
- Charles and Elizabeth
- The Lust of the Earth
- Natural Antiquity
- Chapter 4. Ink
- Goods, Design, Desire
- Ornament and the "School of Fontainebleau"
- Copia and Curiosity
- The Golden Fleece
- Inanimate Reproduction
- Problems of Number
- Chapter 5. Gold
- The Other Side of Increase
- Living Gold
- Mutability
- Royal Responses
- The New World
- Inflation and the Hubris of Kings
- The Golden Age
- Circe's Golden Rod
- Counterfeit Bodies
- Epilogue: Animation and De-animation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index