Blood, milk, ink, gold : abundance and excess in the French Renaissance /

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Author / Creator:Zorach, Rebecca, 1969-
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
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ISBN:0226989372 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-304) and index.
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