Bruegel's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Bruegel's painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting of 1559, 'The Fight Between Carnival And Lent'. Created in Antwerp at a time of religious tension between Catholics and Protestants, the painting is rich in detail and seems ripe for interpretation. But Bruegel is notoriously difficult to interpret. His art seems to reject the preoccupations of the Italian Renaissance, drawing instead on techniques associated with the new technology of the 16th century, print. Was Bruegel using his art to comment on the controversies of his day? If so, what comment was he making?
CONTRIBUTORS
Louise Milne, Lecturer in Visual Culture in the School of Art at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University
Jeanne Nuechterlein, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University of York
Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History and Head of the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London
Producer: Luke Mulhall.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
Reading list:
Walter S. Gibson, Bruegel (Thames & Hudson, 1985)
Walter S. Gibson, Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter (University of California Press, 2006)
Rose-Marie Hagen and Rainer Hagen, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c.1525-1569: Peasants, Fools and Demons (Benedikt Taschen, 1994)
Rose-Marie Hagen and Rainer Hagen, Bruegel: The Complete Works (Taschen, 2000)
Louise Milne, Carnivals and Dreams: Pieter Bruegel and the History of the Imagination (Mutus Liber, 2011)
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R. W. Scribner, Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany (Hambledon Press, 1987)
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
| Interviewed Guest | Louise Milne |
| Interviewed Guest | Jeanne Nuechterlein |
| Interviewed Guest | Miri Rubin |
| Producer | Luke Mulhall |
Broadcasts
- Thu 15 Jan 2015 09:00麻豆社 Radio 4
- Thu 15 Jan 2015 21:30麻豆社 Radio 4
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