Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Bruegel's dizzingly complex "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (1562) is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume in microscopic detail, and placed in its wider context in the texts, which argue that, with this painting, Bruegel turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time. Many of the angels in Bruegel's scene are hybrids of natural and artificial forms, just as the curiosity cabinets of the time would juxtapose "naturalia" and "artificialia" for the connoisseur, connecting the painting to early modern European cultures of knowledge and collecting.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Bruegel's dizzingly complex "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (1562) is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume in microscopic detail, and placed in its wider context in the texts, which argue that, with this painting, Bruegel turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time. Many of the angels in Bruegel's scene are hybrids of natural and artificial forms, just as the curiosity cabinets of the time would juxtapose "naturalia" and "artificialia" for the connoisseur, connecting the painting to early modern European cultures of knowledge and collecting.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Bruegel's dizzingly complex "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (1562) is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume in microscopic detail, and placed in its wider context in the texts, which argue that, with this painting, Bruegel turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time. Many of the angels in Bruegel's scene are hybrids of natural and artificial forms, just as the curiosity cabinets of the time would juxtapose "naturalia" and "artificialia" for the connoisseur, connecting the painting to early modern European cultures of knowledge and collecting.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788836629640
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Publication date: 06/23/2015
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 8

Prefaces

Michel Draguet 9

Marc Boone 11

Prologue 14

Chapter I Angels and Devils of the new Bosch 22

Chapter II A marvelous cabinet of curiosities 66

Chapter III Knowledge becomes art 108

Chapter IV The Fall of the Rebel Angels on the eve of the Dutch Revolt 132

Epilogue 162

Notes 171

Bibliography 182

List of Figures 192

Index 197

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