Seven Deadly Sins in Bruegels' Day

Dr. Dorien Tamis - Curator of Old Master Painting, Sculpture and Applied Arts, Bonnefanten in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Jip van Reijen - Curator Old Masters, Bonnefanten in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Dr Saskia Cohen-Willner - Art historian. Established independent curator, researcher and author, specialising in 16th- and 17th-century paintings, works on paper and art literature. Dr. Wendelien van Welie wrote her PhD-dissertation on the earliest illuminated manuscripts of Brunetto Latini's Livre dou Trésor. She published on a variety of topics such as the representation of Jews in Quaerendo, the representation of power. She is specialised in early medieval art, especially early Christian art, Byzantine art and Karolingian/Ottonian art. Dr. Van Welie works at the department of Art History of the Middle Ages where she lectures in both the bachelor and master on medieval Western and Byzantine art, iconography and historiography.

• 6 ForewordSTIJN HUIJTS8 The Seven Deadly Sins in BriefDORIEN TAMIS27 The Seven Deadly Sins:Was Pieter Bruegel a Visual Thinker?DORIEN TAMIS53 The Reformation of the Seven Deadly SinsA Pictorial Tradition in an Ageof Religious ReformSASKIA COHEN -WILLNER85 The Beauty of SimplicityThe Seven Deadly Sins Among PricelessArtworks and Cheap ‘Consumer Art’JIP VAN REIJEN105 Temptation in Female FormThe Genesis of the Pictorial Traditionof the Seven Deadly SinsWENDELIEN VAN WELIE - VINK127 Confound the Devil!(Literary Essay)LEEN HUET154 Notes157 Bibliography