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Nature Discerned: Providence And Perspective In Gilles Van Coninxloo’S Sylva, Catherine Levesque
Nature Discerned: Providence And Perspective In Gilles Van Coninxloo’S Sylva, Catherine Levesque
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Truth In Painting—Comedic Resolution In Bruegel’S Landscape With The Magpie On The Gallows, Catherine Levesque
Truth In Painting—Comedic Resolution In Bruegel’S Landscape With The Magpie On The Gallows, Catherine Levesque
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Dwelling on the rich interconnections between parody and festivity in humanist thought and popular culture alike, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as it was conceived of in early modern art. The concept of 'carnival' supplies the main thread connecting these essays. Bound as festivity often is to popular culture, not all the topics fit the canons of high art, and some of the art is distinctly low-brow and occasionally ephemeral; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, some …