Figures of Speech : Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands Hardback
by Walter S. Gibson
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 81 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2010
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- ISBN:9780520259546
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 81 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520259546