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Satire And Stoicism: Pieter Bruegel The Elder's Triumph Of Death, Susan K. Gisselberg
Satire And Stoicism: Pieter Bruegel The Elder's Triumph Of Death, Susan K. Gisselberg
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In Bruegel and the Creative Process, 1559 – 1563, Margaret Sullivan explains how the religious and political disorder of the Reformation in the Netherlands influenced Pieter Bruegel’s most original works, including The Triumph of Death. During this period, Bruegel combined classical elements and vernacular traditions. As a result of this process, he was able to depict similar imagery to his contemporaries, yet convey a vastly different concept. In a review, Todd Richardson argued that her claim relied heavily on classical literary sources with inadequate visual evidence in the work itself, and her correlations to antiquity rely solely on the …