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    The Arbroath Sermon of Saint John the Baptist after Pieter Bruegel the Elder: A Rare Pastiche

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    Authors
    Currie, Christina
    Discipline
    Arts
    Subject
    Pieter Bruegel the Elder
    Pieter Brueghel the Younger
    Conversion of Saul
    Massacre of the Innocents
    Sermon of Saint John the Baptist
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2024
    Publisher
    Peeters Publishers
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    Description
    The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist in the Arbroath Art Gallery is an ingenious interweaving of three works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: the Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, the Massacre of the Innocents and the Conversion of Saul. It was conceived as a pastiche from the start and presents a stylistically unified painting. Although it has features in common with Brueghel the Younger’s production, several factors make this unlikely. Most striking is the use of liquid underdrawing for the foreground figures, never seen in Brueghel’s work. There are also no known copies of the Conversion of Saul by Brueghel the Younger. Nonetheless, technical and stylistic similarities suggest that the pasticheur might have trained in Brueghel’s studio. He had firsthand knowledge of one of the latter’s versions of the Sermon of Saint John and either the original or a Brueghel the Younger copy of the Massacre of the Innocents.
    Citation
    Christina Currie, “The arbroath sermon of Saint John the Baptist after Pieter Bruegel the Elder : a rare pastiche”, in: Anne Dubois (ed.), Alla Maniera : technical art history and the meaning of style in 15th to 17th century painting : papers presented at the twenty-second symposium for the study of underdrawing and technology in painting held online : 28-30 March 2022 (Leuven, 2024), p. 234-257.
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    isbn: 978-90-429-5216-4
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14111
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Not pertinent
    Language
    eng
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