Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789004367555
Subjects: Bruegel, pieter, approximately 1525-1569; Christianity and culture; Art and society
Description: 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.