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Item Number: 131124
Title: PIETER BRUEGEL the Elder's Fall of the Rebel Angels. Art, Knowledge and Politics on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt
Author: Meganick, Tine Luk
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788836629640
Description: Milano: Silvana 2014. 24cm., pbk., 200pp., 100 illus. English text. Summary: Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It argues that with his Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) Pieter Bruegel (died 1569) turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time, and situates the painting within the early modern cultures of knowledge and collecting. More particularly, it exposes that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composed of naturalia and artificialia, as they were collected in art and curiosity cabinets of the time. Bruegel's much noted emulation of Jheronymus Bosch was thus only part of his wider interest in collecting, inspecting, and imitating the artistic and natural world around him. This prompts an examination of the world at the time that Bruegel painted the Fall of theRebel Angels: locally, in the urban and courtly centers of Antwerp and Brussels on the eve of the Dutch revolt, andglobally, as the discovery of the New World irreversibly transformed the European perception of art and nature. Painted as a tale of hubris and pride, Bruegel's masterpiecebecomes a meditation on the potential and danger of man's pursuit of art, knowledge and politics, a universal theme that has lost nothing of its power today.
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