(Ebook) Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion by Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller, Jessica Buskirk (eds.) ISBN 9789004367555, 9004367551

(Ebook) Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion by Bertram Kaschek, Jürgen Müller, Jessica Buskirk (eds.) ISBN 9789004367555, 9004367551

'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.