Figures of Speech Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520259546 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 06 Apr 2010 |
DEWEY: | 760.0446094920903 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 236 |
Weight: | 546g |
Height: | 168mm |
Width: | 236mm |
Spine width: | 23mm |