Product Name: Pieter Bruegel the Elder - collections Fall of the Rebel Angels - 9788836629206
collections ISBN：9788836629206

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels

Art, Knowledge and Politics on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt
Author(s): Tine Luk Meganck
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Silvana, Italy
Imprint: Silvana
ISBN-13: 9788836629206, 978-8836629206

Synopsis

Pieter Brugel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels argues 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. Bruegels 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 the Rebel Angels, locally, in the urban and courtly centres of Antwerp and Brussels on the eve of the Dutch revolt, and globally, as the discovery of the New World irreversibly transformed the European perception of art and nature. Painted as a tale of hubris and pride, Bruegels masterpiece becomes a meditation on the potential and danger of mans pursuit of art, knowledge and politics, a universal theme that has lost nothing of its power today.

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