Gessner’s Giraffe. The Bible, the sources and the Iconography

• Main Author: Buquet, Thierry
• Other Authors: Centre Michel de Boüard - Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Konrad Gessner; Giraffe; Renaissance; Historia animalium; History of Zoology; Iconography of the giraffe; [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History; Bianchi; Melchior; Alces alces
• Online Access: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01708475

International audience The paper will stress on three aspects of the chapter on the camelopardalis by Conrad Gesner (Historia animalium, De quadripedibus viviparis).1) Gesner’s sources: Gesner’s account on the giraffe is the first quite complete compilation of Antique sources citing the camelopardal...