PIETER BRUEGEL

This first comprehensive book on one of the most cherishedmasterpieces of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels,argu es that with his Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) Pieter Bruegel(died 1569) turned a traditional devotional theme into an innovativec ommentary on his own time, and situates the painting within the earlymodern cultures of knowledge and collecting. More particularly, itexposes that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composedof naturalia and artificialia, as they were collected in art and cur...[Leer más]