Figures of speech : picturing proverbs in renaissance Netherlands / Walter S. Gibson.

Author: Gibson, Walter S.

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

Descriptionxv, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:A passion for proverbs -- The proverb portrayed -- From hay to turnips: the curious career of a Bosch invention -- Loquacious pictures: twelve emblematic proverb engravings -- The Battle for the breeches: a proverb in the making.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

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