Pieter Bruegel the Elder and religion / edited by Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller, Jessica Buskirk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaschek, Bertram, editor.

Müller, Jürgen, 1961- editor.

Buskirk, Jessica, editor.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 280.

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; 27.

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; volume 280

Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569--Criticism and interpretation.

Bruegel, Pieter.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Christianity and culture--Europe--History--16th century.

Christianity and culture.

Art and society--Europe--History--16th century.

Art and society.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

The book offers new insight into the religious dimension of Bruegel's art. With a number of highly original and thorough case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegel's inventive and multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his day and age. Religion remains a vital question in the life and career of Bruegel, because it was so long believed to be more or less absent from his work. As a pioneer of the new genres of landscape and peasant scenes, Bruegel was heralded as a ground-breaking secular painter. This volume highlights the most recent scholarship on the artist, offering a much more nuanced portrait of Bruegel's engagement with the dynamic religious landscape of the mid-sixteenth century.

Contents:

Pieter Bruegel the Elder and religion: a historiographical introduction / Bertram Kaschek

Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: a new interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Beekeepers / Jürgen Müller

Peter Bruegel and the problem of vision / Larry Silver

Virtue or tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the myth of the Inquisition / Gerd Schwerhoff

The First Temptation of Christ: an evolving iconographic trope in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Jessica Buskirk

The imaginarium of death: Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death / Anna Pawlak

Evidentiae resurrectionis: on the mystery discerned but not seen in Pieter Bruegel's Resurrection of ca. 1562-1563 / Walter S. Melion

Falling idols, rising icons: Bruegel's Flight Into Egypt and the embeddedness of sacred images in nature / Ralph Dekoninck

Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as trap images / Michel Weemans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pieter Bruegel the Elder and religion

ISBN:

9789004367555

9004367551

OCLC:

1031043730