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, 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.

About the author

Barbara A. Kaminska, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014) is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Her publications include essays in "Renaissance and Reformation" and "Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art."

Product details

• Authors: Barbara A Kaminska, Barbara A. Kaminska
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2019
• EAN: 9789004400399
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40039-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 530 g
• Series: Art and Material Culture in Me
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works