Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold

List of Illustrations
Preface: Figures of Excess
1. Incomprehensible Abundance? An Introduction
2. Blood
Sacrifice and Generation at Fontainebleau
The Galerie François Premier
Iconology
Fontainebleau Nova Pandora
Death and Rebirth
The Death of Adonis
The Aesthetics of Sacrifice
Impossible Bodies
3. Milk
Visual Rhetorics
Nature/France
Cybele and Artemis
Fertile Gaul's Fat Breasts
Charles and Elizabeth
The Lust of the Earth
Natural Antiquity
4. Ink
Goods, Design, Desire
Ornament and the "School of Fontainebleau"
Copia and Curiosity
The Golden Fleece
Inanimate Reproduction
Problems of Number
5. Gold
The Other Side of Increase
Living Gold
Mutability
Royal Responses
The New World
Inflation and the Hubris of Kings
The Golden Age
Circe's Golden Rod
Counterfeit Bodies
Epilogue: Animation and De-animation
Notes
Bibliography
Index