Animals in Eden

Paul J. Smith is Professor Emeritus of French literature at Leiden University. He has published on French literature and on early modern natural history in relation to the visual arts and has co-edited Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880), (Brill, 2024).

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Reading and Painting God’s Book of Words and Book of Nature1 Animals in Genesis2 Biblical Typology3 Early Modern Natural History – Conrad Gessner4 Sympathy and Antipathy5 The Four Elements6 Physiologus and Bestiaries7 Illustrated Fable Books and the Gheeraerts Filiation8 Imitation2 Rereading Dürer’s Representations of the Fall of Man1 Introduction2 Serpent, Stag, and Lion in Dürer’s 1510 Drawing3 The Animals in the 1504 Print4 Badger and Bison in the 1510 Woodcut5 Conclusion3 Cranach’s Animals1 Cranach’s 1509 Woodcut2 The 1526 Courtauld Painting3 A Lesser Known Adam and Eve4 Conclusion4 Simon de Myle: Bible, Fable, and Natural History1 Imitating Gheeraerts and Gessner2 De Myle as Critical Imitator of Gheeraerts3 De Myle Reading Gessner4 Arrangement of Animals5 In Conclusion: Metapictorial ReflectionsAppendix5 Cornelis van Haarlem: Eden’s Animals in Aesopian Perspective6 Du Bartas’ Fifth Day: Birds in the Perspective of Natural History and Biblic’al Typology1 Du Bartas, His Semaines and Their Afterlife2 Du Bartas: Natural History3 Ordering and Antipathy4 The Birds in the Seconde Semaine5 Maerten de Vos and the Fifth Day7 Jan Brueghel the Elder’s First Paradise Landscape (1594)1 Imitating Bassano Differentially2 Sympathy and Antipathy3 The Aesopian Connection4 Natural History5 Conclusion8 Sympathy in Eden: On Paradise with the Fall of Man by Rubens and Brueghel1 A Multitude of Diverse Animals2 Rubens’ Red Creatures3 The Other Animals around Adam and Eve4 Other Animals5 The White Animals in the Distance6 ConclusionsAppendix9 Eden’s Animals in Rembrandt and Vondel1 Rembrandt’s Dragon and Elephant2 Vondel’s Dragon3 Sympathy and Antipathy in Adam in ballingschap4 Conclusion10 By Way of Conclusion: Lines of Imitation and the Animal Turn1 Wtewael’s Eden2 An Animal Turn in Eden?General BibliographyIndex nominumIndex of Animals