- A new approach to understanding the work of Pieter Bruegel the
Younger and his contemporaries- Examines covert political commentary in
paintings of a popular religious subject in Dutch art of the 16 and 17
centuries- Exhibition: Bonnefanten, Maastricht (Netherlands) February 6,
2021 - July 5, 2021This catalogue for an exhibition at the Bonnefanten
Museum in Maastricht features paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Younger
and his contemporaries that depict the popular religious subject "Christ
Carrying the Cross," and examines these works for covert critiques of
power and politics in Flanders during the 16th and 17th centuries. The
show explores how artists incorporated both direct and indirect social
and political criticisms into paintings on this theme, and brings
together a selection of works from Bruegel the Younger, his
predecessors, contemporaries, and followers.