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1 online resource (xxxix, 316 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Brill's studies in intellectual history,
0920-8607 ;
v. 169. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ;
v. 2
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Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 169.
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Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animals in art.
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Animals in art. |
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Animals -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe.
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Animals -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Europe. |
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Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives.
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Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives. |
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Art, Renaissance. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cohen, Simona. Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004171015 (DLC) 2008033692 (OCoLC)231588813 |
| ISBN |
9789047424321 (electronic book) |
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9047424328 (electronic book) |
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9789004171015 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004171010 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004171015.i-319 |
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