Del 15 - Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Religious Art for the Urban Community

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Barbara A. Kaminska, Barbara A Kaminska

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Barbara Kaminska’s Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of the most captivating Netherlandish artists, long celebrated for his secular imagery. In a period marked by a profound religious, economic, and cultural transformation, Bruegel offered his sophisticated urban audience complex biblical images that required an engaged, active viewing, not only sparking learned dinner conversations, but facilitating the negotiation of values seen as critical to maintaining a harmonious society. By considering the novelty of Bruegel’s panels used in convivia alongside his small, intimate grisaille compositions, this study ultimately shows that Bruegel renewed the idiom of religious painting, successfully preserving its ritualistic and meditative functions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-07-11
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArt and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Antal sidor242
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004400399

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures Introduction1 Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel1 For “an Idel and Foolish Ostentation of Money”? The Tower of Babeland the Ambiguities of Progress2 Framing the Tower of Babel: Space, Conversation, People3 Monopolies, Self-Interest, and the Common Good4 Antwerp as an International “Community of Commerce” in Philip’s 1549 Joyous Entry2 Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp1 Images of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Probate Inventories and the Location of Works of Art2 “Alzo tot onzer kennesse ghecommen es”: Habsburg Legislation and the Culture of External Display in Antwerp3 Defining Conversion in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries4 Between Light and Darkness: Bruegel’s The Conversion of Saint Paul and Dutch Vernacular Theatre5 Toward a New Model of Religiosity3 “In Their Houses”: Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp1 “Permissible even for sailors”? Lay Reading of the Bible and Spanish Legislation in Antwerp2 Theological Approaches to Religious Imagery in Private Households3 In “zyne huysen”: The Procession to Calvary, Ommegangen, and the Relocation of Religious Practices4 “Outside in the Woods”: The Sermon of Saint John the Baptistand Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp1 Picturing Conversations in Bruegel’s Sermon of Saint John the Baptist5 “If You Are without a Sin”: Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery1 Truth and Penitence in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery2 Adultery, Idolatry, and Rhetorical Strategies of Bruegel’s Grisaille6 Choosing “the Best Part”: Christian Death and Life in Bruegel’s The Death of the Virgin1 “Sweet Sleep” and the Transition from Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa in Bruegel’s Grisaille2 Artistry and Theological Truth in the Images of the Death of the VirginEpilogueBibliographyIndex