The seven deadly sins in Bruegel's day / Dorien Tamis, Jip van Reijen, Saskia Cohen-Willner, Wendelien van Welie-Vink, Leen Huet.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Tamis, Dorien, writer of added commentary.
• Reijen, Jip van, writer of added commentary.
• Cohen-Willner, Saskia, writer of added commentary.
• Welie, Wendelien van, writer of added commentary.
• Huet, Leen, writer of added commentary.
• Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569
• Bonnefantenmuseum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569--Exhibitions.
• Deadly sins in art--Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

160 pages : color illustrations, facsimile ; 27 cm

Other Title:

7 deadly sins in Bruegel's day

Place of Publication:

Zwolle : Waanders Publishers ; Maastricht : Bonnefanten, [2024]

Summary:

How to depict sin, human wickedness and folly? In what is now known as the long sixteenth century, religious and political tensions, and even the weather - this was the low point of the Little Ice Age - prompted a flood of images featuring the seven deadly sins in the Netherlands and the surrounding region. In this publication, four accessibly written essays examine different aspects of the pictorial tradition of the seven deadly sins, with Pieter Bruegel the Elder's renowned series of prints of the same name as the main focus. A fifth, literary essay describes among other things the fevered visions - strewn with representations of the seven deadly sins - of one of the victims of a series of murders that really did happen in the sixteenth century. back cover

Contents:

• Foreword / Stijn Huijts
• The seven deadly sins in brief / Dorien Tamis
• The reformation of the seven deadly sins : a pictorial tradition in an age of religious reform / Saskia Cohen-Willner
• The beauty of simplicity : the seven deadly sins among priceless artworks and cheap 'consumer art' / Jip van Reijen
• Temptation in female form : the genesis of the pictorial tradition of the seven deadly sins / Wendelien van Weli-Vink
• Confound the Devil! (Literary essay) / Leen Huet.

Notes:

• On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Bonnefanten, Maastricht, October 18, 2024 - January 12, 2025.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-158).

Other Format:

Dutch edition

ISBN:

• 9789462625860
• 9462625867

OCLC:

1474439688

Publisher Number:

9789462625860