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Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004367579
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pieter Bruegel the Elder and ReligionDDC classification:
  • 759.9493
LOC classification:
  • ND673.B73 .P548 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical Introduction -- 2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Beekeepers -- 3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of Vision -- 4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the Inquisition -- 5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- 6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death -- 7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel's Resurrection of ca. 1562-1563 -- 8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel's Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in Nature -- 9 Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap Images -- Index Nominum.
Summary: New insight into the religious dimension of Bruegel's art. With a number of highly original case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegel's multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his era.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical Introduction -- 2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Beekeepers -- 3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of Vision -- 4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the Inquisition -- 5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- 6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death -- 7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel's Resurrection of ca. 1562-1563 -- 8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel's Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in Nature -- 9 Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap Images -- Index Nominum.

New insight into the religious dimension of Bruegel's art. With a number of highly original case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegel's multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his era.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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