Pieter Bruegel the Elder and religion / / edited by Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller, Jessica Buskirk.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 280
• TeilnehmendeR: Kaschek, Bertram.; Müller, Jürgen, 1961-; Buskirk, Jessica.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History v. 280.; Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; Acknowledgements --; List of Illustrations --; Notes on the Contributors --; Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion /; Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers /; Peter Bruegel and the Problem of Vision /; Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the Inquisition /; The First Temptation of Christ /; The Imaginarium of Death /; Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel's Resurrection of circa 1562-1563 /; Falling Idols, Rising Icons* /; Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap Images /; Back Matter --; Index Nominum.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004367578
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller, Jessica Buskirk.

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, Jürgen Müller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.