Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 Reading and Painting God's Book of Words and Book of Nature 1 Animals in Genesis 2 Biblical Typology 3 Early Modern Natural History - Conrad Gessner 4 Sympathy and Antipathy 5 The Four Elements 6 Physiologus and Bestiaries 7 Illustrated Fable Books and the Gheeraerts Filiation 8 Imitation2 Rereading Dürer's Representations of the Fall of Man 1 Introduction 2 Serpent, Stag, and Lion in Dürer's 1510 Drawing 3 The Animals in the 1504 Print 4 Badger and Bison in the 1510 Woodcut 5 Conclusion3 Cranach's Animals 1 Cranach's 1509 Woodcut 2 The 1526 Courtauld Painting 3 A Lesser Known Adam and Eve 4 Conclusion4 Simon de Myle: Bible, Fable, and Natural History 1 Imitating Gheeraerts and Gessner 2 De Myle as Critical Imitator of Gheeraerts 3 De Myle Reading Gessner 4 Arrangement of Animals 5 In Conclusion: Metapictorial Reflections Appendix5 Cornelis van Haarlem: Eden's Animals in Aesopian Perspective 6 Du Bartas' Fifth Day: Birds in the Perspective of Natural History and Biblic'al Typology 1 Du Bartas, His Semaines and Their Afterlife 2 Du Bartas: Natural History 3 Ordering and Antipathy 4 The Birds in the Seconde Semaine 5 Maerten de Vos and the Fifth Day7 Jan Brueghel the Elder's First Paradise Landscape (1594) 1 Imitating Bassano Differentially 2 Sympathy and Antipathy 3 The Aesopian Connection 4 Natural History 5 Conclusion8 Sympathy in Eden: On Paradise with the Fall of Man by Rubens and Brueghel 1 A Multitude of Diverse Animals 2 Rubens' Red Creatures 3 The Other Animals around Adam and Eve 4 Other Animals 5 The White Animals in the Distance 6 Conclusions Appendix9 Eden's Animals in Rembrandt and Vondel 1 Rembrandt's Dragon and Elephant 2 Vondel's Dragon 3 Sympathy and Antipathy in Adam in ballingschap 4 Conclusion10 By Way of Conclusion: Lines of Imitation and the Animal Turn 1 Wtewael's Eden 2 An Animal Turn in Eden? General Bibliography Index nominum Index of Animals.