Pieter Bruegel the Elder : religious art for the urban community / by Barbara A. Kaminska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaminska, Barbara A., author.

Series:

Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; volume15.

Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe; volume15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Netherlandish--Themes, motives.

Painting, Netherlandish.

Conversation.

Dinners and dining--Belgium--Antwerp--History--16th century.

Dinners and dining.

Art and society--Belgium--Antwerp--History--16th century.

Art and society.

Antwerp (Belgium)--Intellectual life--16th century.

Antwerp (Belgium).

Bible--Illustrations.

Bible.

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

Bruegel, Pieter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Barbara Kaminska’s Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of the most captivating Netherlandish artists, long celebrated for his secular imagery. In a period marked by a profound religious, economic, and cultural transformation, Bruegel offered his sophisticated urban audience complex biblical images that required an engaged, active viewing, not only sparking learned dinner conversations, but facilitating the negotiation of values seen as critical to maintaining a harmonious society. By considering the novelty of Bruegel’s panels used in convivia alongside his small, intimate grisaille compositions, this study ultimately shows that Bruegel renewed the idiom of religious painting, successfully preserving its ritualistic and meditative functions.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Figures

Introduction

Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegel’s Tower of Babel

Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp

“In Their Houses”: Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

“Outside in the Woods”: The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist and Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp

“If You Are without a Sin”: Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Choosing “the Best Part”: Christian Death and Life in Bruegel’s Death of the Virgin

Epilogue

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014, under the title: Shaping the urban community : convivial conversations and the display of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's religious paintings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-40840-1

OCLC:

1107061295

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004408401 DOI