Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion / Bertram Kaschek -- Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers / Jürgen Müller -- Peter Bruegel and the Problem of Vision / Larry Silver -- Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the Inquisition / Gerd Schwerhoff -- The First Temptation of Christ / Jessica Buskirk -- The Imaginarium of Death / Anna Pawlak -- Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel's Resurrection of circa 1562-1563 / Walter S. Melion -- Falling Idols, Rising Icons* / Ralph Dekoninck -- Pieter Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap Images / Michel Weemans -- Back Matter -- Index Nominum.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion offers new insight into the religious dimension of Bruegel's art. With a number of highly original and thorough case studies, the volume illuminates Bruegel's inventive and multifaceted engagement with the contemporary religious concepts and practices of his day and age. Religion remains a vital question in the life and career of Bruegel, because it was so long believed to be more or less absent from his work. As a pioneer of the new genres of landscape and peasant scenes, Bruegel was heralded as a ground-breaking "secular" painter. This volume highlights the most recent scholarship on the artist, offering a much more nuanced portrait of Bruegel's engagement with the dynamic religious landscape of the mid-sixteenth century. Contributors are: Jessica Buskirk, Ralph Dekoninck, Bertram Kaschek, Walter S. Melion, Jürgen Müller, Anna Pawlak, Gerd Schwerhoff, Larry Silver, and Michel Weemans.

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