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Item Number: 104258
Title: Figures of Speech : Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands
Author: Gibson, Walter S
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780520259546
Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 24cm., hardcover, 236pp., 81 b&w illus. Summary: 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. Contents: Chapter 1. A Passion for Proverbs ; Chapter 2. The Proverb Portrayed ; Chapter 3. From Hay to Turnips: The Curious Career of a Bosch Invention ; Chapter 4. Loquacious Pictures: Twelve Emblematic Proverb Engravings ; Chapter 5. The Battle for the Breeches: A Proverb in the Making ; Conclusion: Figures of Fun and Folly. (An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)
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