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Book The Netherlandish Proverbs

Download or read book The Netherlandish Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pieter Bruegel the Elder s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel the Elder s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric written by Mark A. Meadow and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bruegel's painting is a collection of over one hundred proverbs, each acted out in a single-minded manner by peasants, burghers, monks, inn-keepers and other social types. In order to understand what a viewer of the time might have perceived when viewing this image, this book begins by looking closely at Bruegel's composition. From this starting point, the author offers insights into how proverbs were used and understood in the sixteenth century and into period models for organizing collections. Lastly, the author turns to discussions of Bruegel by his contemporaries, and the insights these give us into the viewing of this and other of his paintings."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Figures of Speech

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter S. Gibson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780520259546
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Walter S. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Walter Gibson, dean of Bruegel scholars, has done it again. His new book, like the proverbs it studies, instructs gently yet plainly in compact size. While it figures forth the depths of Bruegel's own passion for proverbs, this wide-ranging period study also shows the cultural breadth of Dutch proverbs in other media, including the witty world of urban rhetoricians. These 'loquacious pictures' have their adept translator in Walter Gibson."--Larry Silver, author of Peasant Scenes and Landscapes "This is an important book for anyone interested in the representation of the verbal in Northern Renaissance art, and Gibson, who has long conveyed the latest research into Netherlandish iconography to the English-speaking world, an authoritative guide to this neglected aspect of the intellectual climate of the period. Here is new light illuminating some of the lesser-known works of Bosch and Bruegel, but also those of much less well-known artists who chose to pictorialise the idiom in an era--as this study triumphantly demonstrates--in which the proverb came into its own and the verbal became visual not just in manuscripts and paintings but in the very market-place."--Malcolm Jones, author of The Secret Middle Ages

Book Amish Proverbs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Suzanne Woods Fisher
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2012-10-01
  • ISBN : 1441239731
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Amish Proverbs written by Suzanne Woods Fisher and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through firsthand research and personal relationships, Suzanne Woods Fisher has collected more than 400 proverbs that uncover the rich heritage, folklore, faith, values, history, and essence of the Plain People. These proverbs serve as teaching tools and maxims for practical living--but they're not just for the Amish. They're for anyone who seeks God's wisdom and truth for everyday circumstances. Ranging from the simple to the profound, from the serious to the humorous, these sayings will stick with you through life's joys and sorrows. This expanded edition of Amish Proverbs includes more than 200 additional proverbs, giving readers more of the wit and wisdom they crave.

Book Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans

Download or read book Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans written by Edwin Miller Fogel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter written by Walter S. Gibson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humour.

Book  Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words

Download or read book Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Pieter Bruegel   s Historical Imagination

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel s Historical Imagination written by Stephanie Porras and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and proto-ethnographer. Stephanie Porras reorients these apparently contradictory accounts, arguing that the debate about how to read Bruegel has obscured his pictures’ complex relation to time and history. Rather than viewing Bruegel’s art as simply illustrating the social realities of his day, Porras asserts that Bruegel was an artist deeply concerned with the past. In playing with the boundaries of the familiar and the foreign, history and the present, Bruegel’s images engaged with the fraught question of Netherlandish history in the years just prior to the Dutch Revolt, when imperial, religious, and national identities were increasingly drawn into tension. His pictorial style and his manipulation of traditional iconographies reveal the complex relations, unique to this moment, among classical antiquity, local history, and art history. An important reassessment of Renaissance attitudes toward history and of Renaissance humanism in the Low Countries, this volume traces the emergence of archaeological and anthropological practices in historical thinking, their intersections with artistic production, and the developing concept of local art history.

Book The Art of Mixing Metaphors

Download or read book The Art of Mixing Metaphors written by Alan Dundes and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pieter Bruegel

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heroines  Harpies  and Housewives

Download or read book Heroines Harpies and Housewives written by Martha Moffitt Peacock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Book Painting and Politics in Northern Europe

Download or read book Painting and Politics in Northern Europe written by Margaret Deutsch Carroll and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... offers a chronological account of political engagement in works by early modern Northern European painters Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens, and Frans Snyders."--Page 4 of cover.

Book The Adages of Erasmus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Érasme
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802048745
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book The Adages of Erasmus written by Érasme and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated selection of 116 proverbs, which includes all the longer essays, is based on the translation in the Collected Works of Erasmus."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Pieter Bruegel the Elder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Todd M. Richardson
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780754668169
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel the Elder written by Todd M. Richardson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands examines Bruegel's later paintings in the context of two contemporary discourses-art theoretical and convivial. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the author analyzes a variety of images, texts and historical records to offer a broader understanding of not only the artist, but also of the vibrant artistic dialogue occurring in the Netherlands during the sixteenth century.

Book Painting Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert L. Bonn
  • Publisher : Robert Bonn
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781884092121
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Painting Life written by Robert L. Bonn and published by Robert Bonn. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you read this book, you will see how Bruegel's scenes capture the universal conditions of conflict, work, play, folly and chaos, as well as innumerable pieces of biblical and folk wisdom."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Inside Bruegel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Snow
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-11-30
  • ISBN : 086547527X
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Inside Bruegel written by Edward Snow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-11-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children’s Games—in order to unlock the secrets of the great painter’s art.

Book Bosch Bruegel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hieronymus Bosch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780151136001
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Bosch Bruegel written by Hieronymus Bosch and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: