Graphic Worlds of Peter Bruegel the ElderH. Arthur Klein Renowned for his effervescent and rollicking paintings of Flemish life, Peter Bruegel the Elder also holds a place among the world's finest engraving designers. This collection contains 64 of his engravings plus a woodcut, arranged in two parts. The first depicts the outer world of nature and man, including landscapes, ships and the sea, and memorable portraits of sixteenth-century Flanders citizens, from aristocrats and burghers to villagers and peasants. The second part envisions the inner worlds of imagination, morality, and religion with scenes from the Gospels and Apocrypha. In addition, the book offers cogent and stimulating commentaries by H. Arthur Klein that provide details of Bruegel's life and influences as well as his techniques. Many of these prints served as models for subsequent Bruegel canvases, and each image is accompanied by an essay that places it within its historical context. A unique survey of the best and most magical work of one of history's greatest printmakers, this volume offers a prized addition to the collections of all connoisseurs, especially those interested in the art of engraving. |
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... first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1963 and reissued in 2014. International Standard Book Number ISBN-13: 978-0-486-21132-9 ISBN-10: 0-486-21132-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-17907 Manufactured in the United ...
... first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1963 and reissued in 2014. International Standard Book Number ISBN-13: 978-0-486-21132-9 ISBN-10: 0-486-21132-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-17907 Manufactured in the United ...
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... First, my wife. . . . She shares my persistent Bruegelism and Bruegelizing, even to the extent of agreeing that home wouldn't be quite the same without reproductions of paintings such as “Return of the Herd,” “Hunters in the Snow,” and ...
... First, my wife. . . . She shares my persistent Bruegelism and Bruegelizing, even to the extent of agreeing that home wouldn't be quite the same without reproductions of paintings such as “Return of the Herd,” “Hunters in the Snow,” and ...
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... first, but rather to be referred to whenever need or desire arises. The aids comprise six sections in the following ... first name, just as jerome, rather than its Latin fancification Hierwy'mus, has been used as the first name for such ...
... first, but rather to be referred to whenever need or desire arises. The aids comprise six sections in the following ... first name, just as jerome, rather than its Latin fancification Hierwy'mus, has been used as the first name for such ...
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... first vowel into the German Umlaut u, like the vowel in filter or upng, which is sounded approximately by shaping the lips as if to utter a nice round 0 as in rose, but instead vocalizing a long e, as in free. Correctness, like ...
... first vowel into the German Umlaut u, like the vowel in filter or upng, which is sounded approximately by shaping the lips as if to utter a nice round 0 as in rose, but instead vocalizing a long e, as in free. Correctness, like ...
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... first link in a chain that produced prints intended for his day and age—prints that increasing numbers of burghers bought, studied, and discussed. Probably for every man or woman who saw a Bruegel painting during the master's lifetime ...
... first link in a chain that produced prints intended for his day and age—prints that increasing numbers of burghers bought, studied, and discussed. Probably for every man or woman who saw a Bruegel painting during the master's lifetime ...
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Adriaan Barnouw allegorical figure Angeles Antwerp appears artist Avarice bagpipe Bastelaer birds boat Bosch Boymans Museum Bruegel originals Bruegel prints Bruegel the Elder Bruegel’s death Brussels carrack castle church corner dated demon Ebria Feinblatt Engraved by vdH engraver’s face farther figure filled find fine fire first fish five Flemish floats fly foreground Fortitude Fritz Grossmann galleon galley Golden Legend graphic grisaille hand head Heyden horizon human identified Jake Zeitlin Jerome Bosch Jerome Cock Jesus Kunsthistorisches Museum landscape Latin caption lechery looking lower left lower right man’s mast monster Mopsus mountain naked Netherlands one’s original drawing painting peasant Peter Bruegel Philippe Galle picture plate poop deck probably publisher reproduced by permission sails Saint scene scholar seems seen seven seven Virtues ship shows significant sinners Sins stands Stridbeck subjects suggested surviving symbol Tolnay Translation of Latin tree vessels Vienna Virtues warship woman