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 10
... lower right to the far distances at left center. Men are plowing, hunting, driving burdened horses, plodding along with agricultural implements on their shoulders—all purposeful and busy. Everywhere we find the artist concerned with ...
... lower right to the far distances at left center. Men are plowing, hunting, driving burdened horses, plodding along with agricultural implements on their shoulders—all purposeful and busy. Everywhere we find the artist concerned with ...
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... right. He is Saint Jerome—“Hieronymus” in the Latin form. Apparently engrossed in a book, he turns his back on the ... lower left-hand corner stands a squat, strangely modern figure. He holds something like a walking stick in his right ...
... right. He is Saint Jerome—“Hieronymus” in the Latin form. Apparently engrossed in a book, he turns his back on the ... lower left-hand corner stands a squat, strangely modern figure. He holds something like a walking stick in his right ...
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... right. The landscape again unfolds a panorama with mountains, valley, stream ... Lower on the road (just beyond the walled town) three burdened mules are led ... lower left-hand corner appear the “credits.” They declare that Brueghel (as ...
... right. The landscape again unfolds a panorama with mountains, valley, stream ... Lower on the road (just beyond the walled town) three burdened mules are led ... lower left-hand corner appear the “credits.” They declare that Brueghel (as ...
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... right. Shrubs and vines cluster about the tree trunks. An ivy-like leaf can ... lower viewpoint, in the greater weight of their forms, and in the more ... right. Its composition seems no more powerful than that of several of the first ...
... right. Shrubs and vines cluster about the tree trunks. An ivy-like leaf can ... lower viewpoint, in the greater weight of their forms, and in the more ... right. Its composition seems no more powerful than that of several of the first ...
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... right, cattle are grazing on meadows next to the stream in the valley floor. One stream seems to flow from horizon center toward lower right. Another meanders to or from the lower left-hand corner. Near that corner of the picture ...
... right, cattle are grazing on meadows next to the stream in the valley floor. One stream seems to flow from horizon center toward lower right. Another meanders to or from the lower left-hand corner. Near that corner of the picture ...
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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