Bruegel's winter scenes : historians and art historians in dialogue / edited by Tine Luk Meganck and Sabine van Sprang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meganck, Tine, editor.

Sprang, Sabine van, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bruegel, Pieter.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569--Themes, motives.

Bruegel, Pieter (de oude), 1526/1530-1569.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Winter in art.

Painting, Flemish--16th century--Themes, motives.

Painting, Flemish.

Painting, Flemish--Themes, motives.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Bruegel, Pieter (de oude), 1526/1530-1569.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Distributed outside Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg by Yale University Press.

Place of Publication:

Brussels : Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium : Mercatorfonds, [2018]

Summary:

This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these masterpieces of Flemish Renaissance art, including Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap (1565) and The Census at Bethlehem (1566), both at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the book offers an enhanced understanding of the painter's relationship to his time and the extent to which his winter landscapes were meant to reflect real-life situations. After tracing how these paintings have been understood over time, the essays propose new insights into such issues as whether Bruegel depicts the plight of the local populace during winter and whether The Census at Bethlehem challenges or reaffirms central power structures. Abundantly illustrated, Bruegel's Winter Scenes is both a thorough examination and a celebration of these widely admired images.

Contents:

A winter's voyage with Pieter Bruegel the Elder : an introduction to dialogue / Sabine van Sprang & Tine Luk Meganck

The changing image of Bruegel and his winters : the winter scenes in art history / hilde Cuvelier

Winter landscape and skaters and bird trap or time suspended / Sabine van Sprang

The census at Bethlehem : winter of a golden age / Tine Luk Meganck

Bruegel's winter scenes : reflections of everyday experience and climate history? / Claire Billen & Chloé Deligne

The urban elite and rural Brabant in the sixteenth century / Jelle De Rock & Michael Limberger

Good inn, bad inn? : drinking practices in life and art in the sixteenth century / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene

Taxation and census in Bruegel's Brabant / Erik Aerts

Longing for better times : freedom and prosperity under pressure / Wim Blockmans

Afterword : Bruegel's winter scenes, his oeuvre, and Netherlandish art / Ethan Matt Kavaler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300236927

0300236921

9789462302235

9462302235

OCLC:

1048304533