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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index
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
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
