Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion

By Bertram Kaschek

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, J rgen M ller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004367551
• ISBN13: 9789004367555
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"