Pieter Bruegel And The Culture Of The Early Modern Dinner Party

Author : Claudia Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351554053

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Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party by Claudia Goldstein Pdf

Mining a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources, including stoneware jugs, personal correspondence, paintings, inventories, and literature written for the dining room, this study offers a critical and entirely original examination of the function of early modern images for the people who owned and viewed them. The study explores the emergence, functions and material culture of the Antwerp dinner party during the heady days of the mid-sixteenth century, when Antwerp?s art market was thriving and a new wealthy, non-noble class dominated the city. The author recontextualizes some of Bruegel?s work within the cultural nexus of the dining room, where material culture and theatrical performance met humanist wit and the desire for professional advancement. The narrative also touches on the reception of Northern art in Lombardy, on intersections among painting, material culture, and theater, and on intellectual history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004367579

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion by Anonim Pdf

New insight into the religious dimension of Bruegel’s art. With a number of highly original case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegel’s multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his era.

Author : Barbara A. Kaminska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004472426

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Images of Miraculous Healing in the Early Modern Netherlands by Barbara A. Kaminska Pdf

Barbara Kaminska argues that visual imagery was central to premodern disability discourses and shows how interpretations of miracle stories served to justify expectations toward the impaired and the poor.

Author : Alexandra Onuf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351251525

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The 'Small Landscape' Prints in Early Modern Netherlands by Alexandra Onuf Pdf

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp in simple, unembellished compositions. At a time when vast panoramic and allegorical landscapes dominated the art market, the Small Landscapes represent a striking innovation. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the significance of the Small Landscapes in early modern print culture. It charts a diachronic history of the series over the century it was in active circulation, from 1559 to the middle of the seventeenth century. Adopting the lifespan of the prints as the framework of the study, Alexandra Onuf analyzes the successive states of the plates and the changes to the series as a whole in order to reveal the shifting artistic and contextual valences of the images at their different moments and places of publication. This unique case study allows for a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across multiple publishing houses, highlighting the seminal importance of print publishers in the creation and dissemination of visual imagery and cultural ideas. Looking at other visual materials and contemporary sources – including texts as diverse as humanist poetry and plays, agricultural manuals, polemical broadsheets, and peasant songs – Onuf situates the Small Landscapes within the larger cultural discourse on rural land and the meaning of the local in the turbulent early modern Netherlands. The study focuses new attention on the active and reciprocal intersections between printed pictures and broader cultural, economic and political phenomena.

Author : Johannes Ljungberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466304

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Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe by Johannes Ljungberg Pdf

Author : Barbara A. Kaminska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004408401

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder by Barbara A. Kaminska Pdf

In Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community Barbara Kaminska offers the first book-length study of Bruegel’s biblical paintings, and argues that they were inherently linked to Antwerp’s religious, socio-economic, and cultural transformation.

Author : Elizabeth Alice Honig
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789141085

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Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig Pdf

A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerless paintbrush to mankind’s labors and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life, portraying landscapes, peasant life, and biblical scenes in startling detail. Much like the great humanist scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bruegel questioned how well we really know ourselves and also how we know, or visually read, others. His work often represented mankind’s ignorance and insignificance, emphasizing the futility of ambition and the absurdity of pride. This superbly illustrated volume examines how Bruegel’s art and ideas enabled people to ponder what it meant to be human. Published to coincide with the four-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of Bruegel’s death, it will appeal to all those interested in art and philosophy, the Renaissance, and Flemish painting.

Author : Stephanie Porras
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271084558

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Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination by Stephanie Porras Pdf

The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and proto-ethnographer. Stephanie Porras reorients these apparently contradictory accounts, arguing that the debate about how to read Bruegel has obscured his pictures’ complex relation to time and history. Rather than viewing Bruegel’s art as simply illustrating the social realities of his day, Porras asserts that Bruegel was an artist deeply concerned with the past. In playing with the boundaries of the familiar and the foreign, history and the present, Bruegel’s images engaged with the fraught question of Netherlandish history in the years just prior to the Dutch Revolt, when imperial, religious, and national identities were increasingly drawn into tension. His pictorial style and his manipulation of traditional iconographies reveal the complex relations, unique to this moment, among classical antiquity, local history, and art history. An important reassessment of Renaissance attitudes toward history and of Renaissance humanism in the Low Countries, this volume traces the emergence of archaeological and anthropological practices in historical thinking, their intersections with artistic production, and the developing concept of local art history.

Author : Audrey Horning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226661

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment by Audrey Horning Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume –from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles –encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport, new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped by global encounters. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Audrey Horning is Professor at William & Mary, USA, and at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004290396

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Discovering the Riches of the Word by Anonim Pdf

The contributions to Discovering the Riches of the Word. Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe explore new approaches to the study of religious reading in a long term (from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century) and geographically broad perspective.

Author : Adam Sammut
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004276383

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Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp by Adam Sammut Pdf

This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It is structured around three works of art, made or procured by Peter Paul Rubens: the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary cycle (in situ), Caravaggio’s Rosary Madonna (Vienna) and the Wrath of Christ high altarpiece (Lyon). Within the artist’s lifetime, the church and monastery were completely rebuilt, creating one of the most spectacular sacred spaces in Northern Europe. In this richly illustrated book, Adam Sammut reconceptualises early modern churches as theatres of political economy, advancing an original approach to cultural production in a time of war. Using methodologies at the cutting edge of the humanities, the place of St Paul’s is restored to the crux of Antwerp’s commercial, civic and religious life.

Author : Julie De Groot
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789462703179

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At Home in Renaissance Bruges by Julie De Groot Pdf

Domestic materiality in a remarkable European city How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the role of women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges’ middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.

Author : Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350280038

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration by Christina M. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Carroll Pdf

The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift. Rooted in medieval beliefs and preoccupations, the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and curiosity as Europeans increasingly engaged with the rest of the world. Interiors in both public and private spaces changed to reflect these cultural encounters and, with them, the furniture with which they were populated. Visually, furniture of this period displayed new designs, forms and materials. In its uses, it also mirrored developments in science, technology, government and social relationships as prints became more widely distributed, the Wunderkammer developed and there was religious strife and resistance to absolute monarchical rule. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Author : Catriona Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351563239

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Imaging Stuart Family Politics by Catriona Murray Pdf

From conception onwards, Stuart offspring were presented to their subjects through texts, images and public celebrations. Audiences were exhorted to share in their development, establishing affective bonds with the royal family and its latest additions. Yet inviting the public into Stuart domestic affairs exposed them to intense scrutiny and private interactions were endowed with public dimensions. Images of royal children had the potential both to support and to undermine dynastic messages. In Imaging Stuart Family Politics, Catriona Murray explores the promotion of Stuart familial propaganda through the figure of the royal child. Bringing together royal ritual, court portraiture and popular prints, she offers a distinctive perspective on this crucial dimension of seventeenth-century political culture, exploring the fashioning and dismantling of reproductive imagery, as well as the vital role of visual display within these dialogues. This wide-ranging study will appeal to scholars of Stuart cultural, political and social history.

Author : Debra Cashion,Henry Luttikhuizen,Ashley West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004354128

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The Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700 by Debra Cashion,Henry Luttikhuizen,Ashley West Pdf

An anthology of 42 essays by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of the late medieval and early modern periods in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.