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Pieter Bruegel the Elder : religious art for the urban community /
"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, econ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ;
v. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Notas: | Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014, under the title: Shaping the urban community : convivial conversations and the display of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's religious paintings. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004408401 9789004408401 |
| ISSN: | 2212-4187 ; |