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Pieter Bruegel's historical imagination

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"Explores the historical imagination of the late sixteenth-century Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel, focusing on the complex interplay of classical antiquity, local history, and art history"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction : peasants and pagans -- The archaeological peasant -- Hybrid histories -- Bacchic excess -- Bruegel's art history -- Conclusion : Bruegel as history.

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    University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

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    1500 - 1599

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    • 9780271070896
    • 0271070897

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