Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature

by Elizabeth Alice Honig

Book Overview

A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789146755
• ISBN13: 9781789146752
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"