Bertram Kaschek is a researcher at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett. He has published articles on early modern Netherlandish and German art and German Photography and is the author of Weltzeit und Endzeit: Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. (Wilhelm Fink, 2012).Jürgen Müller holds the Chair for Early Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Dresden. He has published extensively on northern European art of the early modern period and film history and is the author of a forthcoming comprehensive monograph on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Taschen, 2018).Jessica Buskirk is a freelance researcher, focusing on Netherlandish and German art of the early modern period. She has published articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art and is the co-editor of The Aura of the Word (Routledge, 2016).

“This book reveals how Pieter Bruegel, under the ban of controversies, developed a visual code to hint at traps laid by false prophets and the devil. Readers might feel themselves trapped in the intricate webs of visual exegesis in these essays, but the understanding obtained will deepen their comprehension of the vexed vision of an artist of universal importance.” Leopoldine Prosperetti, University of Houston. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1362–1363.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the Contributors1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical IntroductionBertram Kaschek2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Beekeepers Jürgen Müller3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of VisionLarry Silver4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the InquisitionGerd Schwerhoff5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century AntwerpJessica Buskirk6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of DeathAnna Pawlak7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel’s Resurrection of ca. 1562–1563Walter S. Melion8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in NatureRalph Dekoninck9 Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap ImagesMichel Weemans

Bertram Kaschek is a researcher at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett. He has published articles on early modern Netherlandish and German art and German Photography and is the author of Weltzeit und Endzeit: Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. (Wilhelm Fink, 2012).Jürgen Müller holds the Chair for Early Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Dresden. He has published extensively on northern European art of the early modern period and film history and is the author of a forthcoming comprehensive monograph on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Taschen, 2018).Jessica Buskirk is a freelance researcher, focusing on Netherlandish and German art of the early modern period. She has published articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art and is the co-editor of The Aura of the Word (Routledge, 2016).

“This book reveals how Pieter Bruegel, under the ban of controversies, developed a visual code to hint at traps laid by false prophets and the devil. Readers might feel themselves trapped in the intricate webs of visual exegesis in these essays, but the understanding obtained will deepen their comprehension of the vexed vision of an artist of universal importance.” Leopoldine Prosperetti, University of Houston. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1362–1363.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the Contributors1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical IntroductionBertram Kaschek2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Beekeepers Jürgen Müller3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of VisionLarry Silver4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the InquisitionGerd Schwerhoff5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century AntwerpJessica Buskirk6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of DeathAnna Pawlak7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel’s Resurrection of ca. 1562–1563Walter S. Melion8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in NatureRalph Dekoninck9 Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap ImagesMichel Weemans

Bertram Kaschek is a researcher at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett. He has published articles on early modern Netherlandish and German art and German Photography and is the author of Weltzeit und Endzeit: Die “Monatsbilder” Pieter Bruegels d. Ä. (Wilhelm Fink, 2012).Jürgen Müller holds the Chair for Early Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Dresden. He has published extensively on northern European art of the early modern period and film history and is the author of a forthcoming comprehensive monograph on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Taschen, 2018).Jessica Buskirk is a freelance researcher, focusing on Netherlandish and German art of the early modern period. She has published articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art and is the co-editor of The Aura of the Word (Routledge, 2016).

“This book reveals how Pieter Bruegel, under the ban of controversies, developed a visual code to hint at traps laid by false prophets and the devil. Readers might feel themselves trapped in the intricate webs of visual exegesis in these essays, but the understanding obtained will deepen their comprehension of the vexed vision of an artist of universal importance.” Leopoldine Prosperetti, University of Houston. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73 , No 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 1362–1363.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the Contributors1 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion: A Historiographical IntroductionBertram Kaschek2 Of Birdnesters and Godsearchers: A New Interpretation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Beekeepers Jürgen Müller3 Peter Bruegel and the Problem of VisionLarry Silver4 Virtue or Tyranny? Pieter Bruegel, Justitia, and the Myth of the InquisitionGerd Schwerhoff5 The First Temptation of Christ: An Evolving Iconographic Trope in Sixteenth-Century AntwerpJessica Buskirk6 The Imaginarium of Death: Pieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of DeathAnna Pawlak7 Evidentiae Resurrectionis: On the Mystery Discerned but not Seen in Pieter Bruegel’s Resurrection of ca. 1562–1563Walter S. Melion8 Falling Idols, Rising Icons: Bruegel’s Flight into Egypt and the Embeddedness of Sacred Images in NatureRalph Dekoninck9 Pieter Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow and Insidiosus Auceps as Trap ImagesMichel Weemans