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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... looking up the reproduction among the plates in the Miinz volume or—if they have the good fortune—by visiting the museum or collection where it is on display. Finally, in the immediately following “Chronology of the Creative Life of ...
... looking up the reproduction among the plates in the Miinz volume or—if they have the good fortune—by visiting the museum or collection where it is on display. Finally, in the immediately following “Chronology of the Creative Life of ...
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... looking at. The assumption that such objective realism is an end which should be sought by individual artists, is a fallacy perhaps more pathetic, in its deepest implications, than the convention associated with such clichés as “the sad ...
... looking at. The assumption that such objective realism is an end which should be sought by individual artists, is a fallacy perhaps more pathetic, in its deepest implications, than the convention associated with such clichés as “the sad ...
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... looking lower, on a slight promontory we see balanced an animal, perhaps a goat. Truly a strange “desert”! It is the Netherlands of Bruegel mixed with his Alpine memories—not the wasteland near Antioch where Jerome changed his way of ...
... looking lower, on a slight promontory we see balanced an animal, perhaps a goat. Truly a strange “desert”! It is the Netherlands of Bruegel mixed with his Alpine memories—not the wasteland near Antioch where Jerome changed his way of ...
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... looking residences. A cluster of trees, drawn in elaborate and loving detail, stands close to the spectator at the right. Shrubs and vines cluster about the tree trunks. An ivy-like leaf can be seen. Below, a well-fed rabbit nibbles the ...
... looking residences. A cluster of trees, drawn in elaborate and loving detail, stands close to the spectator at the right. Shrubs and vines cluster about the tree trunks. An ivy-like leaf can be seen. Below, a well-fed rabbit nibbles the ...
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... looking down toward the hunt. An arch below the eyes forms an open mouth. The angle of the wall between the eyes becomes a nose. It is in effect a face—possibly unintentional, but one cannot help suspecting intention, however hidden, in ...
... looking down toward the hunt. An arch below the eyes forms an open mouth. The angle of the wall between the eyes becomes a nose. It is in effect a face—possibly unintentional, but one cannot help suspecting intention, however hidden, in ...
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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