Aesop’s Heritage
Word, Image, and Education in France, the Low Countries, and Beyond (1500–1800)
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 2 June 2026
- ISBN 9789004752757
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages358 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 858 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
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.
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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); Oudry’s fable illustrations and paintings; and the prolific production of illustrated fable books for children in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France.
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Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Editors
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Paul 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 – La vie et fables d’Esope Phrygien, 1547
Paola Cifarelli
3 At the Origins of the Emblematic Fable: Gilles Corrozet and His Flemish Readers Eduard de Dene and Marcus Gheeraerts
Paul J. Smith
4 Drawings in Dresden: 111 Drawings Identified as the Work of Marcus Gheeraerts
Dirk Geirnaert
5 Marcus Gheeraerts, Fables and Tapestries: New Facts and Findings
Dirk Geirnaert
6 Revisiting Roelant Savery’s Aesop in the Light of Philostratus’ Imagines
Paul J. Smith and Lisanne Wepler
Part 2: La Fontaine in Word and Image
7 ‘Paraphras’d in verse, adorn’d with sculpture’: Revisiting John Ogilby and Jean de La Fontaine, with an Excursus on Philip Ayres
Paul J. Smith
8 J.-B. Oudry and the Fables of La Fontaine: From Book to Canvas (1747), and Back Again (1755–1759)
Stefan Schoettke
9 La Fontaine in The Hague – A Painting Series as Room Decoration in the Johan de Witthuis
Lisanne Wepler
Part 3: Fables and Education
10 La Fontaine’s Implied Reader: ‘I use animals to instruct’ … the Dauphin?
Céline Zaepffel
11 Florian’s Useless Lessons
Paul Pelckmans
12 From Selection to Transposition: Turning Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables into Children’s Books in the 18th and 19th Century
Céline Zaepffel
Index Nominum
Index of Fable Protagonists (Gods, Humans, Animals, Plants, Objects)
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