Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance

Name: Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780226989372

ISBN-10: 0226989372

ISBN-13: 9780226989372

Edition: 2005

Authors: Rebecca Zorach

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Zorach explores the rich artistic culture of 16th century France, whose monarchs believed themselves the heirs to the Roman Empire.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/2/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English

Ruben Zaiotti is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Canada.Rebecca Zorach is professor in the Departments of Art History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Passionate Triangle and Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance.



List of Illustrations


Preface: Figures of Excess



Incomprehensible Abundance? An Introduction



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



Milk


Visual Rhetorics


Nature/France


Cybele and Artemis


Fertile Gaul's Fat Breasts


Charles and Elizabeth


The Lust of the Earth


Natural Antiquity



Ink


Goods, Design, Desire


Ornament and the "School of Fontainebleau"


Copia and Curiosity


The Golden Fleece


Inanimate Reproduction


Problems of Number



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