Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788836629640)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Bruegel's dizzingly complex "Fall of the Rebel Angels" (1562) is presented in this lavishly illustrated volume in microscopic detail, and placed in its wider context in the texts, which argue that, with this painting, Bruegel turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovative commentary on his own time. Many of the angels in Bruegel's scene are hybrids of natural and artificial forms, just as the curiosity cabinets of the time would juxtapose "naturalia" and "artificialia" for the connoisseur, connecting the painting to early modern European cultures of knowledge and collecting.

Author: Pieter Brueghel
ISBN-10: 8836629644
ISBN-13: 9788836629640
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Language: English
Published: 06/23/2015
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.00w x 0.90d