Brueghel's Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class, and Culture in the Late Middle Ages

by John Block Friedman

What do Brueghel's mid-sixteenth-century portrayals of "heavy" wedding dancers and feasters have in common with many late medieval poems and manuscript illustrations? Certain of his paintings, with their obsessive social detail, have often been treated as if they heralded a set of cultural attitudes peculiar to the Early Modern period. Yet the way that the painter combines, in a single scene, scurrilous behavior with dress not only unsuited to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632150
• ISBN13: 9780815632153
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.2"