Pieter Bruegel the Elder and religion: a historiographical introduction / Bertram Kaschek -- Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: a new interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Beekeepers / Jurgen Muller -- Peter Bruegel and the problem of vision / Larry Silver -- Virtue or tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the myth of the Inquisition / Gerd Schwerhoff -- The First Temptation of Christ: an evolving iconographic trope in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Jessica Buskirk -- The imaginarium of death: Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death / Anna Pawlak -- Evidentiae resurrectionis: on the mystery discerned but not seen in Pieter Bruegel's Resurrection of ca. 1562-1563 / Walter S. Melion -- Falling idols, rising icons: Bruegel's Flight Into Egypt and the embeddedness of sacred images in nature / Ralph Dekoninck -- Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as trap images / Michel Weemans.
Summary:
The book 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.
Series:
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; volume 280 Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 27
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