dc.contributor.advisor | Dunbar, Burton L. (Burton Lewis) | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Erker, Nicholas Ryan | eng |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Art and Art History | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 Fall | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page, viewed on July 1, 2015 | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: Burton L. Dunbar | eng |
dc.description | Vita | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographic references (pages 183-185) | eng |
dc.description | Thesis (M.A.)--Department of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2014 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | In the year 1565, Antwerp merchant Nicolaes Jongelinck commissioned Pieter Bruegel
the Elder to paint a series of paintings, The Months, for his suburban villa. Unfortunately,
Jongelinck lost possession of the series of paintings and the works were passed from collection
to collection. In passing from owner to owner, the collection changed in size causing the original
number of paintings in the series to be a debated topic.
There are those who believe that there were originally twelve paintings in the series while
others argue that there were only six. In either case, today, there are only five from the original
series that remain. In examining prototypical work depicting the labors of the months,
contemporaries of Bruegel, and the works of his children and other artists who followed after
Bruegel, certain themes can be found consistently in the representations of the labors of the
months. These themes help reveal that there were likely twelve paintings in the original series.
Further examination into these other works also provides possible ideas as to what the missing
paintings would have looked like. | eng |
dc.description.sponsorship | College of Arts and Sciences | |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction -- The Months -- Prototypical artwork -- Bruegel's contemporaries and followers -- After Bruegel -- Perspectives on The Months -- Conclusion -- Illustrations | eng |
dc.description.version | monographic | |
dc.format.extent | xvii, 186 pages | eng |
dc.format.medium | text | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/45816 | eng |
dc.language | English | |
dc.relation.isversionof | Version of record | |
dc.rights | Open Access (fully available) | |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright retained by author | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Seasons in art | eng |
dc.subject.other | Thesis -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Art and art history | eng |
dc.title | Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Months: A Perspective | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
dc.type.genre | Graduate | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Art and Art History (UMKC) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Kansas City | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | MA (Master of Arts) | eng |