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Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature (Hardcover)
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Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature (Hardcover)
Series: Renaissance Lives
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Discovery Miles 4 460
You Save R134 (23%)
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In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing
religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel
explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his
critical eye and peerless paintbrush to mankind's labors and
pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life, portraying
landscapes, peasant life, and biblical scenes in startling detail.
Much like the great humanist scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bruegel
questioned how well we really know ourselves and also how we know,
or visually read, others. His work often represented mankind's
ignorance and insignificance, emphasizing the futility of ambition
and the absurdity of pride. This superbly illustrated volume
examines how Bruegel's art and ideas enabled people to ponder what
it meant to be human. Published to coincide with the
four-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of Bruegel's death, it will
appeal to all those interested in art and philosophy, the
Renaissance, and Flemish painting.
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