As fábulas de La Fontaine de São Vicente de Fora/Les fables de La Fontaine du monastère de Saint-Vincent à Lisbonne

Title

en_US As fábulas de La Fontaine de São Vicente de Fora/Les fables de La Fontaine du monastère de Saint-Vincent à Lisbonne

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: Portuguese/French

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Third edition

en_US Présentées par Jean de la Varende

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Photographs of St. Vincent Monastery

en_US Martins, António Coimbra (Introduction)

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:43Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 2012

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US What a marvelous book! And what a marvelous place to present! I had never heard of this collection of tiles representing fables of La Fontaine. Thirty-eight of La Fontaine's fables are presented here in splendid groupings of tiles. These presentations, generally four pages in length, are preceded by a French essay Fabuleux Saint Vincent and succeeded by a Portuguese essay Sao Vicente Fabuloso. Then there is a T of C at the end. Both the dust-jacket and the cover rightly highlight one of the best of the series: The Bear and the Lover of Gardens, an exquisite group of tiles. That picture on the cloth cover is a first sign that no expense was spared in the preparation of this lovely book. A standard fable presentation here is generally divided this way: a page featuring a picture detail surrounded by very large margins; a page of the French text; a page of the Portuguese text; and finally a full-page presentation of almost all of that fable scene, including the top and bottom molding. The page format here does not allow including all on the right and left. Among the best of a very good lot are these illustrations: The Bear and the Lover of Gardens (41); The Faithless Friend Left with a Deposit (55); The Camel and the Floating Sticks (63); The Acorn and the Pumpkin (67); The Eagle and the Magpie (79); The Snake and the File (95); The Shepherd and the Sea (103); The Astrologer Who Fell into a Pit (111); SS (115); GGE (127); The Fox and the Bust (145); The Cat, the Hare, and the Weasel (167); and AD (170). One gets a sense of the cloister walk itself on 184-85. The tiles were done in the eighteenth century.

Identifier

en_US 9789729973536

en_US 10258 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76246

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chandeigne/Nova Terra

en_US Lisboa

Subject

en_US NK4670.7.P82 L583 2012

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole