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Aesopâs Heritage
Word, Image, and Education in France, the Low Countries, and Beyond (1500â1800)
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 103
Aesop's Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries from 1500 to 1800, examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. The main drivers of this evolution were the French fable books of the 1540s, the fable illustrations by Marcus Gheeraerts, and, of course, the fables of Jean de La Fontaine. The book sheds new light on a number of well-known and lesser-known works, including an Aesop painting by Roelant Savery; Flemish wall tapestries with fable motifs; John Ogilby and his illustrators (Stoop, Cleyn, Hollar, Barlow); Oudryâs fable illustrations and paintings; and the prolific production of illustrated fable books for children in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France.
Paul J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at Leiden University. His research focuses on 16th- and 17th-century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric and early modern natural history.
Dirk Geirnaert worked many years as a historical lexicographer at the Dutch-Flemish Institute for the Dutch Language in Leiden. Now he is an independent scholar working in the domain of Dutch historical literature and linguistics. He has published many articles on Middle Dutch fragments, on Dutch literature of the Middle Ages and the 16th century, and on allied products of medieval and renaissance figurative arts.
Dirk Geirnaert worked many years as a historical lexicographer at the Dutch-Flemish Institute for the Dutch Language in Leiden. Now he is an independent scholar working in the domain of Dutch historical literature and linguistics. He has published many articles on Middle Dutch fragments, on Dutch literature of the Middle Ages and the 16th century, and on allied products of medieval and renaissance figurative arts.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âPaul J. Smith
2 Between Text and Image: The 16th-Century Editions of an Eclectic Fable Collection â La vie et fables dâEsope Phrygien, 1547
âPaola Cifarelli
3 At the Origins of the Emblematic Fable: Gilles Corrozet and His Flemish Readers Eduard de Dene and Marcus Gheeraerts
âPaul J. Smith
4 Drawings in Dresden: 111 Drawings Identified as the Work of Marcus Gheeraerts
âDirk Geirnaert
5 Marcus Gheeraerts, Fables and Tapestries: New Facts and Findings
âDirk Geirnaert
6 Revisiting Roelant Saveryâs Aesop in the Light of Philostratusâ Imagines
âPaul J. Smith and Lisanne Wepler
7 âParaphrasâd in verse, adornâd with sculptureâ: Revisiting John Ogilby and Jean de La Fontaine, with an Excursus on Philip Ayres
âPaul J. Smith
8 J.-B. Oudry and the Fables of La Fontaine: From Book to Canvas (1747), and Back Again (1755â1759)
âStefan Schoettke
9 La Fontaine in The Hague â A Painting Series as Room Decoration in the Johan de Witthuis
âLisanne Wepler
10 La Fontaineâs Implied Reader: âI use animals to instructâ ⦠the Dauphin?
âCéline Zaepffel
11 Florianâs Useless Lessons
âPaul Pelckmans
12 From Selection to Transposition: Turning Jean de La Fontaineâs Fables into Childrenâs Books in the 18th and 19th Century
âCéline Zaepffel
Index Nominum
Index of Fable Protagonists (Gods, Humans, Animals, Plants, Objects)
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âPaul J. Smith
Part 1: 16th-Century Bi-Mediality: Gilles Corrozet, Marcus Gheeraerts, and Others
2 Between Text and Image: The 16th-Century Editions of an Eclectic Fable Collection â La vie et fables dâEsope Phrygien, 1547
âPaola Cifarelli
3 At the Origins of the Emblematic Fable: Gilles Corrozet and His Flemish Readers Eduard de Dene and Marcus Gheeraerts
âPaul J. Smith
4 Drawings in Dresden: 111 Drawings Identified as the Work of Marcus Gheeraerts
âDirk Geirnaert
5 Marcus Gheeraerts, Fables and Tapestries: New Facts and Findings
âDirk Geirnaert
6 Revisiting Roelant Saveryâs Aesop in the Light of Philostratusâ Imagines
âPaul J. Smith and Lisanne Wepler
Part 2: La Fontaine in Word and Image
7 âParaphrasâd in verse, adornâd with sculptureâ: Revisiting John Ogilby and Jean de La Fontaine, with an Excursus on Philip Ayres
âPaul J. Smith
8 J.-B. Oudry and the Fables of La Fontaine: From Book to Canvas (1747), and Back Again (1755â1759)
âStefan Schoettke
9 La Fontaine in The Hague â A Painting Series as Room Decoration in the Johan de Witthuis
âLisanne Wepler
Part 3: Fables and Education
10 La Fontaineâs Implied Reader: âI use animals to instructâ ⦠the Dauphin?
âCéline Zaepffel
11 Florianâs Useless Lessons
âPaul Pelckmans
12 From Selection to Transposition: Turning Jean de La Fontaineâs Fables into Childrenâs Books in the 18th and 19th Century
âCéline Zaepffel
Index Nominum
Index of Fable Protagonists (Gods, Humans, Animals, Plants, Objects)
This book is intended for literary historians (early modern French, Dutch and English literature), art historians (book illustration and fable motifs in painting, tapestries, and wall decoration), book historians (etching technique) and cultural historians (history of education). It is aimed at both specialist and non-specialist readers. Keywords: Aesopus, Aesop, animal fable, Anonyme de 1548 , Gilles Corrozet, Marcus Gheeraerts, Eduard de Dene, etching technique, wall tapestry, Jan Raes, Nicasius Aerts, Roelant Savery, Blaise de Vigenère, Philostratus, Jean de La Fontaine, John Ogilby, Dirk Stoop, Francis Cleyn, Wenceslaus Hollar, Francis Barlow, Philip Ayres, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Johan de Witthuis, pedagogy, Florian, illustrated childrenâs books.