Le Bel Objet: Les Paradis Artificiels de la Pleiade - Paperback

by Francoise Joukovsky (Author)

This book studies the representation of the "beautiful object" and the manifestation of beauty in the poetic practices of La Pleiade. At the heart of the texts of Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay, and Remy Belleau, an applied aesthetic is identified, illuminated by the philosophical and pictorial treatises of the Renaissance.