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griet and her sisters 137 figure 78. Jacob Binck, Old Woman Clubbing the Devil, 1528, engraving. Vienna, Albertina. ritories of their husbands in their absence. 48 A print published sometime after Bruegel’s death portrays Kenau Simonsdr. Hasselaer, a woman who actively participated in the defense of Haarlem during the Spanish siege of 1572–73 (Fig. 80). In full battle dress and bearing a spear, she displays the severed head of “Dom Pero” (that is, Pedro), an enemy soldier she has dispatched, and whose body lies on the ground behind her; Kenau’s pose and the composition in general recall many depictions of the period of the Old Testament heroine Judith displaying the head of Holofernes. 49 But Griet is neither a noble lady nor a heroine, ancient or modern, 50 and Bruegel may have been partly inspired by the topos of the Fight for
138 griet and her sisters figure 79. Daniel Hopfer, Three Old Women Thrashing the Devil, etching. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. the Breeches, in which the wife often clinches her victory over her husband by appropriating his breeches and occasionally his wallet and knife as well. 51 This subject inspired an engraving by the Monogrammist MT, a German artist active in the early 1540s (Fig. 81), in which the wife has already pulled on her husband’s hose and breeches, its distended codpiece a sly comment on her aggressive virility in contrast to the impotence of her cringing husband. The struggle for the breeches also inspired a car-
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A H M A N S O N • M U R P H Y F I
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pieter bruegel and the art of laugh
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University of California Press Berk
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Good friends who come to read this
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list of illustrations =ã Only date
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illustrations xi Washington, D.C.,
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illustrations xiii Musées Royaux d
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illustrations xv 52. Jacob Grimmer,
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illustrations xvii Augsburg. Leipzi
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xx acknowledgments many other insti
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prologue deciphering bruegel =ã Bu
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the commodity of laughter 15 How mu
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the commodity of laughter 17 a man
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the commodity of laughter 19 Courti
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the commodity of laughter 21 risqu
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the commodity of laughter 23 son”
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the commodity of laughter 25 figure
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the commodity of laughter 27 the ev
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uegel’s art of laughter 29 figure
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chapter three a bankrupt and his br
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a bankrupt and his bruegels 69 figu
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a bankrupt and his bruegels 73 his
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chapter four rustic revels =ã Noth
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ustic revels 79 figure 45. Jan or L
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ustic revels 81 ily, were especiall
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ustic revels 83 Hendrik van Berchem
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234 select bibliography Bell 1999.
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index 255 Kermis, 81, 82, 83, 150,
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index 257 Drawings, 1, 8, 9, 10, 11
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index 259 Hemessen, Jan Sanders van
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index 261 Meckenem, Israhel van, 13
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index 265 seigneurial relations, 78
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