Pieter Bruegel The Elder Religious Art For The Urban Community Art And Material Culture In Medieval And Renaissance Europe 15 1st Edition Barbara A Kaminska by Barbara A. Kaminska 9789004400399, 9004400397 instant download after payment.

Barbara Kaminska's Pieter Bruegel the Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of the most captivating Netherlandish artists, long celebrated for his secular imagery. In a period marked by a profound religious, economic, and cultural transformation, Bruegel offered his sophisticated urban audience complex biblical images that required an engaged, active viewing, not only sparking learned dinner conversations, but facilitating the negotiation of values seen as critical to maintaining a harmonious society. By considering the novelty of Bruegel's panels used in convivia alongside his small, intimate grisaille compositions, this study ultimately shows that Bruegel renewed the idiom of religious painting, successfully preserving its ritualistic and meditative functions.