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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.
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.
Price: $183.00
Pages: 282
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
28 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004367555
Format: Hardcover
“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.
Leopoldine Prosperetti, University of Houston. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1362–1363.
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).
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).