Brueghel's Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class, and Culture in the Late Middle Ages
(Part of the Medieval Studies Series)
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What do Brueghel's mid-sixteenth-century portrayals of "heavy" wedding dancers and feasters have in common with many late medieval poems and manuscript illustrations? Certain of his paintings, with their obsessive social detail, have often been treated as if they heralded a set of cultural attitudes peculiar to the Early Modern period. Yet the way that the painter combines, in a single scene, scurrilous behavior with dress not only unsuited to the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0815632150
ISBN13:9780815632153
Release Date:May 2010
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 7.1" x 10.2"
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