Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36755-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 280/27, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion 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.

Contributors are: Jessica Buskirk, Ralph Dekoninck, Bertram Kaschek, Walter S. Melion, Jürgen Müller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kaschek, Bertram

Müller, Jürgen

Buskirk, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on the Contributors

1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical Introduction

Bertram Kaschek

2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Beekeepers

Jürgen Müller

3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of Vision

Larry Silver

4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the Inquisition

Gerd Schwerhoff

5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

Jessica Buskirk

6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of Death

Anna Pawlak

7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel’s Resurrection of ca. 1562–1563

Walter S. Melion

8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in Nature

Ralph Dekoninck

9 Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap Images

Michel Weemans

Über Autor(innen)

Bertram Kaschek is a researcher at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett. He has published articles on early modern Netherlandish and German art and German Photography and is the author of Weltzeit und Endzeit: Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. (Wilhelm Fink, 2012).

Jürgen Müller holds the Chair for Early Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Dresden. He has published extensively on northern European art of the early modern period and film history and is the author of a forthcoming comprehensive monograph on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Taschen, 2018).

Jessica Buskirk is a freelance researcher, focusing on Netherlandish and German art of the early modern period. She has published articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art and is the co-editor of The Aura of the Word (Routledge, 2016).