Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion

by Bertram Kaschek (Editor), Jürgen Müller (Contributor), Jessica Buskirk (Contributor)

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 Jessica Buskirk, Ralph Dekoninck, Bertram Kaschek, Walter S. Melion, Jürgen Müller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.

300 pages, Hardcover

Published June 28, 2018

Reviews

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting book analyzing one theme of Bruegel's art. Nine studies examined his art that showed the spiritual and religious figures in villages and nature.
Bruegel, as known, showed nature through secularist view, so researchers and critics studied his view as an innovative view then.