Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance.(Book review)

The Historian | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. By Rebecca Zorach. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 314. $45.00.)

The art of the French Renaissance has long been a neglected area of study. This certainly owes much to the difficulty of understanding both the art itself, which is frequently obscure and even bizarre, and its relationship to the broader culture. Rebecca Zorach's ambitious (and beautifully produced) study attempts to overcome those difficulties, applying a wide range of hermeneutic strategies usually ...

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