Elizabeth Alice Honig
Author of Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp
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- Legal name
- Honig, Elizabeth Alice
- Birthdate
- 1960-11-01
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Yale University (M.A. ∙ 1984 ∙ M.Phil|1986 ∙ Ph.D|1992)
Bryn Mawr College (A.B. ∙ 1982) - Occupations
- professor
art historian - Organizations
- University of Maryland, College Park
University of California, Berkeley
Tufts University - Relationships
- Honig, Donald (uncle)
- Short biography
- Elizabeth Alice Honig works on the art, literature, and visual cultures of Early Modern Europe. Her interests span the pictorial arts, the built environment, and civic ritual; the art market and practices of collecting; the mobility of objects and imagery; copying and originality; notions of visuality in literary texts; gender and representation; and historical techniques of painting. She also works within the Digital Humanities and has integrated mapping, network analysis, and digital text analysis into her teaching.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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In 16th-century northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind’s labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical scenes in startling detail, Bruegel questioned how well we really know ourselves and also how we know, or visually read, others. His work often represented mankind’s show more ignorance and insignificance, emphasizing the futility of ambition and the absurdity of pride, and he would became one of the most significant artists of the Renaissance period.
This superbly illustrated volume examines how Bruegel’s art and ideas enabled people to ponder what it meant to be human. Published to coincide with the 450th anniversary of Bruegel’s death, it will appeal to all those interested in art and philosophy, the Renaissance and the painting of the Dutch Golden Age. show less
This superbly illustrated volume examines how Bruegel’s art and ideas enabled people to ponder what it meant to be human. Published to coincide with the 450th anniversary of Bruegel’s death, it will appeal to all those interested in art and philosophy, the Renaissance and the painting of the Dutch Golden Age. show less
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- Popularity
- #245,551
- Rating
- 4.4
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 5
