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FORBIDDEN INDULGENCES: A STUDY OF ADRIAEN BROUWER'S PEASANT SCENES, 1631-1638

ECKMAN, JENNIFER
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147751604

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2006, MA, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Art History.
During the seventeenth century, the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer (1605/6-1638) specialized in low-life images of peasants indulging themselves in forbidden activities such as drinking, smoking, and fighting. A unique element of his work is the expressive body gestures and grotesque facial expressions of the figures. Chapter one addresses several questions such as why Brouwer chose this type of genre and whether or not there is symbolic and moralizing meaning incorporated into his work. Chapter two, three, and four are separated by each indulgence – drinking, smoking, and fighting. In these three chapters, I conduct a formal analysis, with a small portion of iconographical interpretation, of a selection of his peasant scenes within the socio-historical context of the Low Countries during the last period of his career, 1631-1638. To show how Brouwer rendered this subject differently than other Netherlandish artists, his paintings are compared to several of his contemporaries’ works.
Dr. Kristi Nelson (Advisor)
112 p.
Art History

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  • ECKMAN, J. (2006). FORBIDDEN INDULGENCES: A STUDY OF ADRIAEN BROUWER'S PEASANT SCENES, 1631-1638 [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147751604

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • ECKMAN, JENNIFER. FORBIDDEN INDULGENCES: A STUDY OF ADRIAEN BROUWER'S PEASANT SCENES, 1631-1638. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147751604.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • ECKMAN, JENNIFER. "FORBIDDEN INDULGENCES: A STUDY OF ADRIAEN BROUWER'S PEASANT SCENES, 1631-1638." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147751604

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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