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Figures of Speech: Picturing Proverbs in Renaissance Netherlands Book
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Product Description
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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