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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... corner at the right. He is Saint Jerome—“Hieronymus” in the Latin form. Apparently engrossed in a book, he turns his back on the eloquent and fluid-flowing landscape which fills the rest of the frame. Behind him lies a tame lion, like a ...
... corner at the right. He is Saint Jerome—“Hieronymus” in the Latin form. Apparently engrossed in a book, he turns his back on the eloquent and fluid-flowing landscape which fills the rest of the frame. Behind him lies a tame lion, like a ...
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... corner at right. The landscape again unfolds a panorama with mountains, valley, stream, town, castle, and the like. White radiance arises from the head of the penitent. A crucifix is before her, as well as a skull, an ever-present ...
... corner at right. The landscape again unfolds a panorama with mountains, valley, stream, town, castle, and the like. White radiance arises from the head of the penitent. A crucifix is before her, as well as a skull, an ever-present ...
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... corner. We see again this apparently paradoxical or perverse subordination of the title personality or event. Such ironical “throwing away” of the title element is striking in such paintings as “The Fall of Icarus” (1554—58?), “The ...
... corner. We see again this apparently paradoxical or perverse subordination of the title personality or event. Such ironical “throwing away” of the title element is striking in such paintings as “The Fall of Icarus” (1554—58?), “The ...
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... corner, again beside a near-at-hand tall tree, sits a rustic, concerned with beating his scythe blade straight on an anvil. His face is barely visible under his hat. A little to the left stands another man, his back turned toward us. He ...
... corner, again beside a near-at-hand tall tree, sits a rustic, concerned with beating his scythe blade straight on an anvil. His face is barely visible under his hat. A little to the left stands another man, his back turned toward us. He ...
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... corner. Near that corner of the picture, horsemen ride across the stream on what may be a rude bridge or embankment. Goats or small deer—difficult to distinguish because of the suggestion of long horns in the delicate engravings—are ...
... corner. Near that corner of the picture, horsemen ride across the stream on what may be a rude bridge or embankment. Goats or small deer—difficult to distinguish because of the suggestion of long horns in the delicate engravings—are ...
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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