Aesop's Heritage : Word, Image, and Education in France, the Low Countries, and Beyond (1500-1800).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Paul J.

Series:

Intersections Series

Intersections Series ; v.103

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

Aesop's Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known figures, including Marcus Gheeraerts, La Fontaine, Oudry, and John Ogilby.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Editors

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 16th-Century Bi-Mediality: Gilles Corrozet, Marcus Gheeraerts, and Others

Chapter 2 Between Text and Image: The 16th-Century Editions of an Eclectic Fable Collection - La vie et fables d'Esope Phrygien, 1547

Chapter 3 At the Origins of the Emblematic Fable: Gilles Corrozet and His Flemish Readers Eduard de Dene and Marcus Gheeraerts

Chapter 4 Drawings in Dresden: 111 Drawings Identified as the Work of Marcus Gheeraerts

Chapter 5 Marcus Gheeraerts, Fables and Tapestries: New Facts and Findings

Chapter 6 Revisiting Roelant Savery's Aesop in the Light of Philostratus' Imagines

Part 2 La Fontaine in Word and Image

Chapter 7 'Paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture': Revisiting John Ogilby and Jean de La Fontaine, with an Excursus on Philip Ayres

Chapter 8 J.-B. Oudry and the Fables of La Fontaine: From Book to Canvas (1747), and Back Again (1755-1759)

Chapter 9 La Fontaine in The Hague - A Painting Series as Room Decoration in the Johan de Witthuis

Part 3 Fables and Education

Chapter 10 La Fontaine's Implied Reader: 'I use animals to instruct' … the Dauphin?

Chapter 11 Florian's Useless Lessons

Chapter 12 From Selection to Transposition: Turning Jean de La Fontaine's Fables into Children's Books in the 18th and 19th Century

Index Nominum

Index of Fable Protagonists (Gods, Humans, Animals, Plants, Objects)

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

90-04-75277-3

OCLC:

1585501667