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The Seven Deadly Sins in Bruegels' Time

Dorien Tamis author Jip van Reijen author Leen Huet author Saskia Cohen-Willner author Wendelien van Weile-Vink author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Uitgeverij de Kunst

Published:1st Nov '24

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How do you portray sin, evil and foolishness in humans? Religious and political tensions and even the weather - we are talking about the depths of the Little Ice Age - contributed to a boom in representations of the Seven Deadly Sins in the Low Countries and immediate surroundings in the long sixteenth century. In this publication, four accessibly written essays highlight different sides of the pictorial tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, with the renowned print series of the same name designed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder at its centre. A fifth, literary essay describes the feverish visions of one of the victims of a true 16th-century series of murders permeated by the deadly sins.

ISBN: 9789462625860

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 844g

160 pages