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Bruegel's winter scenes : historians and art historians in dialogue /

This focused volume presents a deep exploration and new interpretations of the winter paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-1569). By applying new methodological approaches and interdisciplinary research to these masterpieces of Flemish Renaissance art, including Winter Landscape with Skat...

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Other Authors: Meganck, Tine (Editor), Sprang, Sabine van (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brussels : Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium : Mercatorfonds, [2018]
Subjects:
Bruegel, Pieter, > approximately 1525-1569 > Criticism and interpretation.
Bruegel, Pieter, > approximately 1525-1569 > Themes, motives.
Winter in art.
Painting, Flemish > 16th century > Themes, motives.
20.07 art criticism, art review.
ISBN:9780300236927
0300236921
9789462302235
9462302235
Table of Contents:
  • A winter's voyage with Pieter Bruegel the Elder : an introduction to dialogue / Sabine van Sprang & Tine Luk Meganck
  • The changing image of Bruegel and his winters : the winter scenes in art history / hilde Cuvelier
  • Winter landscape and skaters and bird trap or time suspended / Sabine van Sprang
  • The census at Bethlehem : winter of a golden age / Tine Luk Meganck
  • Bruegel's winter scenes : reflections of everyday experience and climate history? / Claire Billen & Chloé Deligne
  • The urban elite and rural Brabant in the sixteenth century / Jelle De Rock & Michael Limberger
  • Good inn, bad inn? : drinking practices in life and art in the sixteenth century / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
  • Taxation and census in Bruegel's Brabant / Erik Aerts
  • Longing for better times : freedom and prosperity under pressure / Wim Blockmans
  • Afterword : Bruegel's winter scenes, his oeuvre, and Netherlandish art / Ethan Matt Kavaler.

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