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Item Number: 120528
Title: PIETER BRUEGEL and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party
Author: Goldstein, Claudia
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780754667322
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 188pp., 69 b&w illus. Summary: Mining a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources, including stoneware jugs, personal correspondence, paintings, inventories, and literature written for the dining room, this study offers a critical and entirely original examination of the function of early modern images for the people who owned and viewed them. The study explores the emergence, functions and material culture of the Antwerp dinner party during the heady days of the mid-sixteenth century, when Antwerp’s art market was thriving and a new wealthy, non-noble class dominated the city. The author recontextualizes some of Bruegel’s work within the cultural nexus of the dining room, where material culture and theatrical performance met humanist with and the desire for professional advancement. The narrative also touches on the reception of Northern art in Lombardy, on intersections among painting, material culture, and theater, and on intellectual history. Contents: Introduction: private parties and public life; Opulent precedents: Jerome de Busleyden’s humanist banquets; Wine, beer, and butter: Jan Noirot’s dining room and social life at the Antwerp Mint; The dinner party as performance; Sea gods battle and peasants dance: the material culture of the Antwerp dinner party; Antwerp and beyond: envisioning the early modern dining room; Select bibliography; Index. (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)
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