Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (298 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.280 .
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series .
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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Bruegel, Pieter,-approximately 1525-1569-Criticism and interpretation. Art and society-Europe-History-16th century. Christianity and culture-Europe-History-16th century.