TURTLE TORTOISE, IMAGE AND SYMBOL: THE WEST. 3 17th-19th CENTURY EUROPE

De: JOHN NOONE

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

TURTLE TORTOISE, IMAGE & SYMBOL is published here in two volumes Volume One: THE WEST and Volume Two: THE EAST, and each volume is divided into four books. The WEST series is presented as a chronological sequence and the EAST series as individual studies of specific cultures. Together they constitute an in-depth coverage of the image and symbol of the turtle/tortoise throughout the world from the earliest times. Reference is made to specific artifacts, documents and monuments, works of science, literature and art, which may be viewed or consulted today in museums and public places, libraries and private collections, and the writing is intended for all readers with an interest in turtles, scientific or sentimental, for collectors of antiques, curios and objets d'art, and for everyone with an interest in the diversity of cultural history, in myth and religion, custom and art. 17th-19th CENTURY EUROPE is the third of four books in the series TURTLE TORTOISE, IMAGE & SYMBOL: THE WEST. It contains three chapters which show how interest in the turtle/tortoise changed in Renaissance art and during the European Cultural Expansion of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, moving from abstract concepts of sluggishness and modesty towards decorative and representational forms where symbolic significance was dependent on context. The real turtle came to the fore as curiosity cabinets led to zoological research, pirates and colonists discovered turtle-meat and tortoiseshell, sea-turtles and giant tortoises fed whalers and prospectors, before the turtle-soup craze led to mock-turtle, and tortoiseshell to gelatin.