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Peasant festival imagery began in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, when the city played host to a series of religious and secular festivals. The peasant festival images were first produced as woodcut prints in the decade between 1524 and 1535 by Sebald Beham. These peasant festival prints include celebrating in a variety of ways including dancing, eating and drinking, and playing games.In "Before Bruegel", Alison Stewart takes a fresh look at these images and explores them within their historical and cultural contexts, including the introduction of the Lutheran Reformation into the town's institutions and the accompanying re-evaluation of the town's popular festivals. Stewart goes beyond the black-and-white approaches of previous interpretations, to examine the festival prints in a more complex manner.In the first publication of its kind, Stewart makes the case for a range of meanings these works held for a sixteenth-century audience and for Beham's pictorial inventiveness and his business savvy. Beham is credited with inventing the subject of peasant festivals in Northern Renaissance art and for creating a market for the subject by the middle of the sixteenth century, with his large-scale woodcuts at Nuremberg and with tiny engravings at Frankfurt. Stewart shows that the market Beham created for prints with the theme of peasant festivals paved the way for Pieter Bruegel's Netherlandish paintings of the same theme, dating but a few years later.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600

• Full title: Before Bruegel
• Author: Alison G. Stewart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 382
• EAN: 9780754633082
• ISBN: 075463308X
• ID: 04678893
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 1124 g
• Dimensions: 246 × 174 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. July 2008

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