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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Religious Art for the Urban Community
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Barbara Kaminskaâs Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of the most captivating Netherlandish artists, long celebrated for his secular imagery. In a period marked by a profound religious, economic, and cultural transformation, Bruegel offered his sophisticated urban audience complex biblical images that required an engaged, active viewing, not only sparking learned dinner conversations, but facilitating the negotiation of values seen as critical to maintaining a harmonious society. By considering the novelty of Bruegelâs panels used in convivia alongside his small, intimate grisaille compositions, this study ultimately shows that Bruegel renewed the idiom of religious painting, successfully preserving its ritualistic and meditative functions.
Barbara A. Kaminska, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014) is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX. Her publications include essays in âRenaissance and Reformationâ and âJournal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.â
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegelâs The Tower of Babel
â1âFor âan Idel and Foolish Ostentation of Moneyâ? The Tower of Babeland the Ambiguities of Progress
â2âFraming the Tower of Babel: Space, Conversation, People
â3âMonopolies, Self-Interest, and the Common Good
â4âAntwerp as an International âCommunity of Commerceâ in Philipâs 1549 Joyous Entry
2 Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp
â1âImages of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Probate Inventories and the Location of Works of Art
â2ââAlzo tot onzer kennesse ghecommen esâ: Habsburg Legislation and the Culture of External Display in Antwerp
â3âDefining Conversion in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
â4âBetween Light and Darkness: Bruegelâs The Conversion of Saint Paul and Dutch Vernacular Theatre
â5âToward a New Model of Religiosity
3 âIn Their Housesâ: Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
â1ââPermissible even for sailorsâ? Lay Reading of the Bible and Spanish Legislation in Antwerp
â2âTheological Approaches to Religious Imagery in Private Households
â3âIn âzyne huysenâ: The Procession to Calvary, Ommegangen, and the Relocation of Religious Practices
4 âOutside in the Woodsâ: The Sermon of Saint John the Baptistand Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp
â1âPicturing Conversations in Bruegelâs Sermon of Saint John the Baptist
5 âIf You Are without a Sinâ: Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
â1âTruth and Penitence in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
â2âAdultery, Idolatry, and Rhetorical Strategies of Bruegelâs Grisaille
6 Choosing âthe Best Partâ: Christian Death and Life in Bruegelâs The Death of the Virgin
â1ââSweet Sleepâ and the Transition from Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa in Bruegelâs Grisaille
â2âArtistry and Theological Truth in the Images of the Death of the Virgin
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegelâs The Tower of Babel
â1âFor âan Idel and Foolish Ostentation of Moneyâ? The Tower of Babeland the Ambiguities of Progress
â2âFraming the Tower of Babel: Space, Conversation, People
â3âMonopolies, Self-Interest, and the Common Good
â4âAntwerp as an International âCommunity of Commerceâ in Philipâs 1549 Joyous Entry
2 Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp
â1âImages of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Probate Inventories and the Location of Works of Art
â2ââAlzo tot onzer kennesse ghecommen esâ: Habsburg Legislation and the Culture of External Display in Antwerp
â3âDefining Conversion in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
â4âBetween Light and Darkness: Bruegelâs The Conversion of Saint Paul and Dutch Vernacular Theatre
â5âToward a New Model of Religiosity
3 âIn Their Housesâ: Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
â1ââPermissible even for sailorsâ? Lay Reading of the Bible and Spanish Legislation in Antwerp
â2âTheological Approaches to Religious Imagery in Private Households
â3âIn âzyne huysenâ: The Procession to Calvary, Ommegangen, and the Relocation of Religious Practices
4 âOutside in the Woodsâ: The Sermon of Saint John the Baptistand Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp
â1âPicturing Conversations in Bruegelâs Sermon of Saint John the Baptist
5 âIf You Are without a Sinâ: Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
â1âTruth and Penitence in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
â2âAdultery, Idolatry, and Rhetorical Strategies of Bruegelâs Grisaille
6 Choosing âthe Best Partâ: Christian Death and Life in Bruegelâs The Death of the Virgin
â1ââSweet Sleepâ and the Transition from Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa in Bruegelâs Grisaille
â2âArtistry and Theological Truth in the Images of the Death of the Virgin
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
All interested in Northern Renaissance art, history of symposia, the Reformation, especially scholars and students focusing on early modern Netherlandish culture.