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Author_Alison G. Stewart
Barthel Beham
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Beham's Peasant
Beham's Prints
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Beham’s Peasant
Beham’s Prints
Bruegel's Paintings
Bruegel's Peasant
Bruegel’s Paintings
Bruegel’s Peasant
Carnival Play
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early modern festivals
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festival
German woodcuts
Grape Vine
imagery
Jost Amman
kermis
Kermis Woodcuts
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Large Kermis
Large Noses
Northern Renaissance art
Nose Dance
peasant
Peasant Couple
Peasant Festival
Peasant Festival Imagery
Peasant Kermis
Peasant Wedding
Pieter Bruegel
printmaking history
prints
Reformation culture
Sachs's Text
Sachs’s Text
Sebald Beham
sixteenth-century Nuremberg festival imagery
spinning
Spinning Bee
Title Page Woodcut
Twelve Months Series
Van Der Borcht
visual culture studies
wedding
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754633082
- Weight: 1124g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Peasant festival imagery began in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, when the city played host to a series of religious and secular festivals. The peasant festival images were first produced as woodcut prints in the decade between 1524 and 1535 by Sebald Beham. These peasant festival prints show celebrating in a variety of ways including dancing, eating and drinking, and playing games. In Before Bruegel, Alison Stewart takes a fresh look at these images and explores them within their historical and cultural contexts, including the introduction of the Lutheran Reformation into the town's institutions and the accompanying re-evaluation of the town's popular festivals. Stewart goes beyond the black-and-white approaches of previous interpretations, to examine the festival prints in a more complex manner. In the first publication of its kind, Stewart makes the case for a range of meanings these works held for a sixteenth-century audience and for Beham's pictorial inventiveness and his business savvy. Beham is credited with inventing the subject of peasant festivals in Northern Renaissance art and for creating a market for the subject by the middle of the sixteenth century, with his large-scale woodcuts at Nuremberg and with tiny engravings at Frankfurt. Stewart shows that the market Beham created for prints with the theme of peasant festivals paved the way for Pieter Bruegel's Netherlandish paintings of the same theme, dating but a few years later.
Alison G. Stewart is Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, where she teaches Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art.
