Download or read book Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party written by Claudia Goldstein and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudia Goldstein mines a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources to shed new light on the cultural history of sixteenth-century Antwerp. Recontextualizing some of Bruegel's work within the cultural nexus of the dining room, she offers a critical and entirely original examination of the function of early modern images for the people who owned and viewed them.