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Luxury goods for royal collectors : exotica, princely gifts and rare animals exchanged between the Iberian courts and Central Europe in the Renaissance (1560–1612)
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Year: 2010

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Renaissance menageries : exotic animals and pets at the Habsburg courts in Iberia and Central Europe

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Oudry's painted menagerie : portraits of exotic animals in eighteenth-century Europe
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ISBN: 9780892368792 9780892368891 Year: 2007 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Bird : exploring the winged world
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ISBN: 1838661409 9781838661403 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Phaidon Press Limited

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This survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world, showcases the remarkable diversity of species in the avian kingdom, from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches taller than humans, and icebound penguins to tropical macaws. With its content curated alongside an international panel of ornithologists, art historians, wildlife photographers, conservationists, and curators, this extraordinary book includes illustrations and artwork of all styles, with works by a diverse and often surprising range of creators from many different backgrounds, including: John James Audubon; Robert Clark; Mark Dion; Charley Harper; Barbara Kruger; Edward Lear; Ustad Mansur; John Ruskin; Joel Sartore; Sarah Stone; and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe. Arranged in thoughtfully paired juxtapositions, it reveals how artists, illustrators, ornithologists, and photographers - from ancient Egypt to the present - have captured the spirit, likeness, character, and symbolism of birds. Including Tweety pie paired with the Twitter bird; birds as 300-foot desert carvings or 2-inch-tall ivory statuettes; bird bones, bird bank notes, sculptures and birds shaped as beds, the book's three hundred visually stunning entries span four thousand years of fine art, photography, ornithological drawings, popular culture, and scientific discovery from all corners of the globe to create the ultimate celebration of the winged world.


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Exotic animals in the art and culture of the Medici court in Florence
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ISBN: 9789004368989 9789004371132 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family's reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination of global practices in zoological collecting and cultural uses of animals. The Medici's activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most successful princely serraglio in early modern Europe.

Dürer's animals
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ISBN: 0874744083 Year: 1991 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution


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The paper zoo : 500 years of animals in art
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ISBN: 9780712357432 0712357432 Year: 2016 Publisher: London The British Library

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"The Paper Zoo traces the varied and vital role of natural history illustration in science and art since the fifteenth century. Sumptuous images from giants of the genre - such as the birds of John J. Audubon, or the insects of Maria Sybilla Merian - accompany less familiar but equally intriguing illustrations from manuscripts, journals, and rare printed books. Together, these works represent a collection of nature's wonders. Birds, butterflies, insects, mammals, reptiles, and fish were immortalised in print; pests and curiosities were wondered at; microorganisms made monsters. Travellers brought home, on paper, exotic creatures. Scholars and hobbyists insisted upon the beauty and significance of native creatures, both wild and domesticated - even cows and clothes moths. Charlotte Sleigh shows how the styles and purposes of natural history illustration evolved, from animal alphabets to the extraordinary productions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists and explorers recording and classifying the living world. She pays tribute to the achievements of little-known, unsung painters and colourists, alongside famous artists, in this mighty endeavour of collecting, defining and exhibiting animal life on the page. Here, too, were ironies and contradictions: many naturalists were also hunters, and the dodo and the great auk survive only in paper zoos."--Publisher's description.


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"Entre réel et imaginaire : les animaux dans l'histoire, l'art et la littérature à l'époque bourguignonne (XIVe-XVIe siècles)": rencontres d'Enghien (24-27 septembre 2020)
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ISBN: 9782839933858 2839933853 Year: 2021 Publisher: Lausanne Centre européen d'études bourguignonnes

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Part of the Contents: François Duceppe-Lamarre, Une cohabitation ordonné avec l?animal sauvage sous Philippe le Hardi? Le cas de la résidence ducale d'Hesdin entre 1399 et 1404; Victorien Leman, Maîtriser la Création. Animaux et discours politique dans les résidences des ducs de Bourgogne à la fin du Moyen Âge; Alain Marchandisse et Bertrand Schnerb, Belle et ses amis. Le lévrier à la cour de Bourgogne sous Philippe le Bon; Julien Sohier, Les chiens en milieu urbain, dans "l'espace belge", entre le XIIIe et le XVIe siècle; Paul Delsalle, Le cheval, un acteur de l'économie du comté de Bourgogne et de la cité impériale de Besançon au XVIe siècle; Gabriel Redon, La présence de l'aigle impériale dans les sources littéraires italiennes du XIVe siècle; Jean-Christophe Blanchard, Réalité animale et fantasmes princiers. L'exemple de la cour ducale lorraine (1473-1559); Anne Dubois, De suppôt de Satan à gardien du foyer domestique: l'iconographie du chat dans les Pays-Bas bourguignons; Valérie Toureille, Duels dérisoires. Chevaliers et escargots dans les marginalia. Enjeux d interprétation (1250-1350); Audrey Ségard, Quand les prisonniers invitent les animaux à venir leur tenir compagnie! Les graffiti animaliers sur les murs des prisons de la fin du Moyen Âge (XIVe-XVIe siècles); Dominique Delgrange, Décor héraldique pour la clôture du palais de "la Salle de Lille" (1525). Une figure héraldique: le lion ou le griffon tenant une bannière aux armes; Christophe Bosteels, Le thème animalier dans la tapisserie d Enghien du XVIe siècle; Louis-Donat Casterman, Le dragon d Adrien de Croÿ, une devise en écho à une victoire militaire sur les Turcs (1532)?; Danielle Quéruel, De la table à la scène: les oiseaux dans les entremets bourguignons.


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The grand medieval bestiary : animals in illuminated manuscripts
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ISBN: 9780789211279 0789211270 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Abbeville Press Publishers

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"The Grand Medieval Bestiary: Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts is a splendid pageant of the animal kingdom as the Middle Ages saw it, illustrated with miniatures of every period and style, many never before published. Noted art historian Christian Heck explains that the prevalence of animals in illuminated manuscripts reflects their importance in medieval thought, an importance due in part to the agricultural society of that age, in which a variety of species--and not just docile pets--were the daily companions of man. The main part of the book explores the complex and fascinating iconography of the individual creatures most frequently depicted by medieval miniaturists. It is arranged in the manner of a proper bestiary, with essays on one hundred animals alphabetized by their Latin names. The selection includes a number of creatures that would now be considered fantastic, including the griffin, the manticore, and of course the fabled unicorn, tamable only by a gentle maiden."--


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Lexikon der Tiersymbole : Tiere als Sinnbilder in der Malerei des 14.-17. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3937251189 9783937251189 Year: 2004 Volume: 22 Publisher: Petersberg Imhof

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