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 4
... head until 1564 of the Council of State for the Netherlands. Now, nearly 400 years after Bruegel's death, fewer than thirty paintings survive which, in the opinion of all or most authorities, are authentic works of his. We can hardly ...
... head until 1564 of the Council of State for the Netherlands. Now, nearly 400 years after Bruegel's death, fewer than thirty paintings survive which, in the opinion of all or most authorities, are authentic works of his. We can hardly ...
Page 12
... head coverings, which often seem to fuse directly to the bulk of the body below. A fine Bruegel scholar, Fritz Grossmann, remarks that Bruegel not only “liked to show his sitters from the back” but “even in a frontal view he often hid ...
... head coverings, which often seem to fuse directly to the bulk of the body below. A fine Bruegel scholar, Fritz Grossmann, remarks that Bruegel not only “liked to show his sitters from the back” but “even in a frontal view he often hid ...
Page 14
... head of the penitent. A crucifix is before her, as well as a skull, an ever-present reminder of mortality. She meditates, in all probability, a scriptural passage. Her “leanto” shelter is formed by stripped tree trunks with large thorns ...
... head of the penitent. A crucifix is before her, as well as a skull, an ever-present reminder of mortality. She meditates, in all probability, a scriptural passage. Her “leanto” shelter is formed by stripped tree trunks with large thorns ...
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... head toward the horses. He may be ill. Or is this simply the most comfortable way to travel in what must be a ... heads toward right, as if in response to a wave of the arm from the pedestrian who walks on what might be described as “dry ...
... head toward the horses. He may be ill. Or is this simply the most comfortable way to travel in what must be a ... heads toward right, as if in response to a wave of the arm from the pedestrian who walks on what might be described as “dry ...
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... heads upward like an arrow. flown from the foot of the castle. The structure just to the left and a little below the castle—~ perhaps a chapel P—shows two round windows, like eyes, looking down toward the hunt. An arch below the eyes ...
... heads upward like an arrow. flown from the foot of the castle. The structure just to the left and a little below the castle—~ perhaps a chapel P—shows two round windows, like eyes, looking down toward the hunt. An arch below the eyes ...
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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