Abstract
At the end of 16th Century, the Italian painters Vincenzo Campi and Bartolomeo Passerotti addressed the topic of the turkey in the scenes of poultry sale. The importance given to and the treatment of the exotic animal by these two artists is quite original. This originality will be presented in relation with the mainstream artistic treatment of the turkey in 16th and 17th Century in Italy and Flanders ; but also with the history of the discovery of the turkey and its emergence in Europe, in order to find out if the integration of the turkey in the European system of painted depictions was as rapid as the assimilation of the turkey in the European food system. The important number of artistic examples which will be submitted to you in this presentation as well as the variety of aesthetic and symbolic approaches of the turkey which artists showed, in general, testify that the integration of this exotic animal in European culture and in diets was particularly successful. If the images dedicated to the turkey...
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