Figures of speech : picturing proverbs in renaissance Netherlands / Walter S. Gibson.

By: Gibson, Walter SMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010Description: xv, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780520259546 (cloth : alk. paper); 0520259548 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Proverbs in art | Art, Renaissance -- Netherlands | Art, Renaissance -- Belgium | Art, NetherlandishLOC classification: N 7780 .G53 2010
Contents:
A passion for proverbs -- The proverb portrayed -- From hay to turnips: the curious career of a Bosch invention -- Loquacious pictures: twelve emblematic proverb engravings -- The Battle for the breeches: a proverb in the making.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

A passion for proverbs -- The proverb portrayed -- From hay to turnips: the curious career of a Bosch invention -- Loquacious pictures: twelve emblematic proverb engravings -- The Battle for the breeches: a proverb in the making.

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