FIGURES OF SPEECH "PICTURING PROVERBS IN RENAISSANCE NETHERLANDS"

GIBSON, WALTER S.

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ISBN:978-0-520-25954-6
EAN:9780520259546
Editorial: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Fecha de la edición:2010
Número de la edición: 1
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Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:236
Idiomas:INGLES

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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / ARTE MODERNO: SIGLOS XIV-XVIII

Figures of Speech addresses a key topic in Renaissance studies: the importance and pervasiveness of proverbs. For sixteenth-century Netherlanders, proverbs revealed the wisdom of the Ancients as well as the linguistic richness found in their own native language; for Pieter Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, and other Renaissance painters, proverbs were a frequent and appealing subject. In this book, Walter S. Gibson provides a comprehensive and engaging survey of these visual representations, capturing for twenty-first-century readers the moral sensibilities of a time and culture when such adages (and the images conveying their meaning) were invaluable guides to life.