Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion

Author:   Bertram Kaschek ,  Jürgen Müller ,  Jessica Buskirk
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   280/27
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Pages:   282
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion offers new insight into the religious dimension of Bruegel’s art. With a number of highly original and thorough case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegel’s inventive and multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his day and age. Religion remains a vital question in the life and career of Bruegel, because it was so long believed to be more or less absent from his work. As a pioneer of the new genres of landscape and peasant scenes, Bruegel was heralded as a ground-breaking “secular” painter. This volume highlights the most recent scholarship on the artist, offering a much more nuanced portrait of Bruegel’s engagement with the dynamic religious landscape of the mid-sixteenth century. Contributors are: Jessica Buskirk, Ralph Dekoninck, Bertram Kaschek, Walter S. Melion, Jürgen Müller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.

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Author:   Bertram Kaschek ,  Jürgen Müller ,  Jessica Buskirk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   280/27
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004367555


ISBN 10:   9004367551
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors 1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical Introduction  Bertram Kaschek 2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Beekeepers  Jürgen Müller 3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of Vision  Larry Silver 4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the Inquisition  Gerd Schwerhoff 5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp  Jessica Buskirk 6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of Death  Anna Pawlak 7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel’s Resurrection of ca. 1562–1563  Walter S. Melion 8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in Nature  Ralph Dekoninck 9 Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap Images  Michel Weemans

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This book reveals how Pieter Bruegel, under the ban of controversies, developed a visual code to hint at traps laid by false prophets and the devil. Readers might feel themselves trapped in the intricate webs of visual exegesis in these essays, but the understanding obtained will deepen their comprehension of the vexed vision of an artist of universal importance. Leopoldine Prosperetti, University of Houston. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1362-1363.


“This book reveals how Pieter Bruegel, under the ban of controversies, developed a visual code to hint at traps laid by false prophets and the devil. Readers might feel themselves trapped in the intricate webs of visual exegesis in these essays, but the understanding obtained will deepen their comprehension of the vexed vision of an artist of universal importance.” Leopoldine Prosperetti, University of Houston. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1362–1363.


Author Information

Bertram Kaschek is a researcher at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett. He has published articles on early modern Netherlandish and German art and German Photography and is the author of Weltzeit und Endzeit: Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. (Wilhelm Fink, 2012). Jürgen Müller holds the Chair for Early Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Dresden. He has published extensively on northern European art of the early modern period and film history and is the author of a forthcoming comprehensive monograph on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Taschen, 2018). Jessica Buskirk is a freelance researcher, focusing on Netherlandish and German art of the early modern period. She has published articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art and is the co-editor of The Aura of the Word (Routledge, 2016).

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