Les animaux de la mer. Genèse d’un bestiaire fabuleux, des mosaïques romaines aux éditions illustrées de la Renaissance
When looking at the two main editions of the Hortus Sanitatis (1491 and 1536), one can realize how their incongruous illustrations reveal a real discrepancy between picture and text. At least, at the Renaissance, they perfectly highlighted the fact that the An...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Kentron |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1746 |
| Summary: | When looking at the two main editions of the Hortus Sanitatis (1491 and 1536), one can realize how their incongruous illustrations reveal a real discrepancy between picture and text. At least, at the Renaissance, they perfectly highlighted the fact that the Ancients saw the bottom of the sea as an exact reflection of the terrestrial world, inhabited by a quite similar fauna, which was frightening since it was unknown. A comparison with the medieval Bestiaries allows to discern a probable influence through the drawing of the figures, extracted from teeming pictures which were perhaps themselves inspired by floor or pool mosaics of the Antiquity. These figures, dissociated from their primitive context and stylized, were indefinitely and more or less judiciously employed by the editors at the Renaissance… |
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| ISSN: | 0765-0590 2264-1459 |