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April 26, 2004
Mark A. Meadow Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders, 2002. 176 pp. Cloth $60.00 (904009473X)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.36

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Mark Meadow begins his book on Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the practice of rhetoric with a rhetorical exercise of his own: an exordium, a commencement on the artist’s identity, on the contours of rhetorical education in sixteenth-century Netherlandish culture, and on his own art-historical method. Like the sixteenth-century humanist Domenicus Lampsonius, Meadows asks, Who is this new Hieronymus Bosch called Pieter Bruegel? Although much of the painter’s biography escapes us, Meadow rightly argues that...