Pieter Bruegel the Elder : religious art for the urban community
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community Barbara Kaminska offers the first book-length study of Bruegel's biblical paintings, and argues that they were inherently linked to Antwerp's religious, socio-economic, and cultural transformation.
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| Format: | E-Book Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Leiden
Brill
2019
BRILL |
| Ausgabe: | 1 |
| Schriftenreihe: | Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe |
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| ISBN: | 9789004400399, 9004400397 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegel's Tower of Babel -- 1 For "an Idel and Foolish Ostentation of Money"? The Tower of Babel and the Ambiguities of Progress -- 2 Framing the Tower of Babel: Space, Conversation, People -- 3 Monopolies, Self-Interest, and the Common Good -- 4 Antwerp as an International "Community of Commerce" in Philip's 1549 Joyous Entry -- Chapter 2 -- Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp -- 1 Images of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Probate Inventories and the Location of Works of Art -- 2 "Alzo tot onzer kennesse ghecommen es": Habsburg Legislation and the Culture of External Display in Antwerp -- 3 Defining Conversion in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries -- 4 Between Light and Darkness: Bruegel's Conversion of Saint Paul and Dutch Vernacular Theatre -- 5 Toward a New Model of Religiosity -- Chapter 3 -- "In Their Houses": Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- 1 "Permissible even for sailors"? Lay Reading of the Bible and Spanish Legislation in Antwerp -- 2 Theological Approaches to Religious Imagery in Private Households -- 3 In "zyne huysen": The Procession to Calvary, Ommegangen, and the Relocation of Religious Practices -- Chapter 4 -- "Outside in the Woods": The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist and Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp -- 1 Picturing Conversations in Bruegel's Sermon of Saint John the Baptist -- Chapter 5 -- "If You Are without a Sin": Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery -- 1 Truth and Penitence in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery -- 2 Adultery, Idolatry, and Rhetorical Strategies of Bruegel's Grisaille -- Chapter 6
- Choosing "the Best Part": Christian Death and Life in Bruegel's Death of the Virgin -- 1 "Sweet Sleep" and the Transition from Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa in Bruegel's Grisaille -- 2 Artistry and Theological Truth in the Images of the Death of the Virgin -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index