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June 12, 2007
Rebecca Zorach Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 352 pp.; 16 color ills.; 127 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0226989372)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2007.49

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Rebecca Zorach’s Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance offers a wide-ranging study of the elite visual culture of France under the Valois-Angoulême dynasty. In this book, based upon her dissertation at the University of Chicago, Zorach studies the many manifestations of the Fontainebleau style, from panel and wall paintings to sculpture, prints, ceramics, diplomatic gifts and royal entry decorations, costume, and the many copies after the antique that populated the...