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Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels : Art, Knowledge and Politics on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt, Paperback / softback Book

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels : Art, Knowledge and Politics on the Eve of the Dutch Revolt Paperback / softback

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Pieter Brugel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels argues that many of the hybrid falling angels are carefully composed of naturalia and artificialia, as they were collected in art and curiosity cabinets of the time.

Bruegel's much noted emulation of Jheronymus Bosch was thus only part of his wider interest in collecting, inspecting, and imitating the artistic and natural world around him.

This prompts an examination of the world at the time that Bruegel painted the Fall of the Rebel Angels, locally, in the urban and courtly centres of Antwerp and Brussels on the eve of the Dutch revolt, and globally, as the discovery of the New World irreversibly transformed the European perception of art and nature.

Painted as a tale of hubris and pride, Bruegel's masterpiece becomes a meditation on the potential and danger of man's pursuit of art, knowledge and politics, a universal theme that has lost nothing of its power today.

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