Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Tine Meganck

Fall of the rebel angels : art, knowledge and politics on the eve of the Dutch Revolt

KORTE INHOUD

Art, Knowledge and Politics on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It argues that with his Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) Pieter Bruegel (died 1569) turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time, and situates the painting within the early modern cultures of knowledge and collecting. More particularly, it exposes that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composed of naturalia and artificialia , as they were collected in art and curiosity cabinets of the time. Bruegel's much noted emulation of Jheronymus Bosch was thus only part of his wider interest in collecting, inspecting, and imitating the artistic and natural world around him. This prompts an examination of the world at the time that Bruegel painted the Fall of the Rebel Angels : locally, in the urban and courtly...
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2019Uitgever: Silvana EditorialeReeks: Cahiers of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium200 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 8836629202ISBN-13: 9788836629206

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