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September 9, 2009
Alison G. Stewart Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origins of Peasant Festival Imagery Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. 382 pp.; 4 color ills.; 101 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754633082)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.91

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Alison Stewart has a bone to pick with both academic publishers and art-historical scholarship. Although scholarly research demonstrates that painting in the first half of the sixteenth century was one among many artistic media, such as woodblock prints, tapestry, stained glass, metalwork, etc., art historians and publishing houses distinguish painting from the other arts and give preference to it, following an inclination that did not exist in the early modern period. For example, Stewart claims...