Walter Samuel Gibson war ein Kunsthistoriker, der sich auf die Nordische Renaissance spezialisierte, insbesondere auf das Werk von Hieronymus Bosch. Seine Forschung konzentriert sich auf das tiefere Verständnis von Kunstwerken und deren Kontext. Gibsons Herangehensweise zielte darauf ab, die komplexe Welt und die einzigartige Vision seiner gewählten Themen zu beleuchten. Seine Beiträge bieten wertvolle Einblicke in eine entscheidende Ära der Kunstgeschichte.
In this delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best appreciated in the context of humour
Although Pieter Bruegel's pictures have been celebrated throughout the past four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood figure. In a volume which will widen the understanding and enhance the enjoyment of Bruegel's many admirers, Walter Gibson illuminates the sixteenth-century world in which the artist lived. He analyzes the different strands of Bruegel's inspiration, examines his works, and considers his influence on later artists. Dispelling the notion of Bruegel the simpleton peasant, the author shows us Bruegel the cultivated artist, satisfying an urban society's pleasure in moralizing tales and proverbs, rooted in the rich, bourgeois, brilliant Antwerp of the Flemish Renaissance.