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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Page vi
... Flemish verses inscribed under engravings were kindly checked, in some cases, by Andries Dcinum, and had it been possible to submit all the rest to him, they might have been more faithful, if not so free. The onus for anything ...
... Flemish verses inscribed under engravings were kindly checked, in some cases, by Andries Dcinum, and had it been possible to submit all the rest to him, they might have been more faithful, if not so free. The onus for anything ...
Page ix
... Flemish artist and decorator. Coeck having died, PB studies with Jerome Cock, a painter turned engraver and publisher, proprietor of print-publishing house Aux Quatre Vents, founded Antwerp, 1548. PB admitted to master status in ...
... Flemish artist and decorator. Coeck having died, PB studies with Jerome Cock, a painter turned engraver and publisher, proprietor of print-publishing house Aux Quatre Vents, founded Antwerp, 1548. PB admitted to master status in ...
Page 3
... Flemish naer bet leven, or “drawn from life.” More than fifty such drawings have survived, carefully and lovingly done with pen and brownish ink over preliminary sketches in black chalk. They are attributed to the years between 1557 and ...
... Flemish naer bet leven, or “drawn from life.” More than fifty such drawings have survived, carefully and lovingly done with pen and brownish ink over preliminary sketches in black chalk. They are attributed to the years between 1557 and ...
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... Flemish and Latin, were engraved underneath, so that the salutary sentiments of the Sin and Virtue prints could not be miStaken. (After all, there was even then arising on the horizon a non-imaginary monster of most horrendous aspect ...
... Flemish and Latin, were engraved underneath, so that the salutary sentiments of the Sin and Virtue prints could not be miStaken. (After all, there was even then arising on the horizon a non-imaginary monster of most horrendous aspect ...
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... Flemish landscape attists, in the senses both of priority in time and in stature. His similarity to Bruegel is striking. . . . In Patinir's works, contrary to the practice prevalent in his day, human figures are small and relatively ...
... Flemish landscape attists, in the senses both of priority in time and in stature. His similarity to Bruegel is striking. . . . In Patinir's works, contrary to the practice prevalent in his day, human figures are small and relatively ...
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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