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Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands Book

For sixteenth-century Netherlanders, proverbs revealed the wisdom of the Ancients as well as the linguistic richness found in their own native language. This book addresses a key topic in Renaissance studies: the importance and pervasiveness of...Read More

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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.

  • 0520259548
  • 9780520259546
  • WS Gibson
  • 6 April 2010
  • University of California Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
  • 1
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