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Before Bruegel - Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Before Bruegel - Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Peasant festival imagery began in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, when
the city played host to a series of religious and secular
festivals. The peasant festival images were first produced as
woodcut prints in the decade between 1524 and 1535 by Sebald Beham.
These peasant festival prints show celebrating in a variety of ways
including dancing, eating and drinking, and playing games. In
Before Bruegel, Alison Stewart takes a fresh look at these images
and explores them within their historical and cultural contexts,
including the introduction of the Lutheran Reformation into the
town's institutions and the accompanying re-evaluation of the
town's popular festivals. Stewart goes beyond the black-and-white
approaches of previous interpretations, to examine the festival
prints in a more complex manner. In the first publication of its
kind, Stewart makes the case for a range of meanings these works
held for a sixteenth-century audience and for Beham's pictorial
inventiveness and his business savvy. Beham is credited with
inventing the subject of peasant festivals in Northern Renaissance
art and for creating a market for the subject by the middle of the
sixteenth century, with his large-scale woodcuts at Nuremberg and
with tiny engravings at Frankfurt. Stewart shows that the market
Beham created for prints with the theme of peasant festivals paved
the way for Pieter Bruegel's Netherlandish paintings of the same
theme, dating but a few years later.
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