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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... Original drawings, as contrasted with the engravings based upon them, we identify by means of the catalog numbers assigned by Ludwig Munz in Bruegel, the Drawings, which appears as a 1961 item in the English part of the preceding list ...
... Original drawings, as contrasted with the engravings based upon them, we identify by means of the catalog numbers assigned by Ludwig Munz in Bruegel, the Drawings, which appears as a 1961 item in the English part of the preceding list ...
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... (drawing, M.1 3), original for engraving known as “Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley ” (B9), engraved by Jerome Cock. Drawing in Louvre, Paris. Engraving and publication by Jerome Cock from now lost original drawings, of eleven other ...
... (drawing, M.1 3), original for engraving known as “Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley ” (B9), engraved by Jerome Cock. Drawing in Louvre, Paris. Engraving and publication by Jerome Cock from now lost original drawings, of eleven other ...
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... (drawing, M.15o), in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Engraved in 1565 by vdH (B. 1 1 8). “The Procession to Calvary ... Original drawing does not survive for this or other engravings in the Ship series. “The Parable of the Good Shepherd” (H.122) ...
... (drawing, M.15o), in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Engraved in 1565 by vdH (B. 1 1 8). “The Procession to Calvary ... Original drawing does not survive for this or other engravings in the Ship series. “The Parable of the Good Shepherd” (H.122) ...
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... drawings and in engravings from no longer surviving original drawings, created landscapes more vital, more autonomous, and more expressive than these others. Ebria Feinblatt writes of “the immense, palpitating mountain ranges with their ...
... drawings and in engravings from no longer surviving original drawings, created landscapes more vital, more autonomous, and more expressive than these others. Ebria Feinblatt writes of “the immense, palpitating mountain ranges with their ...
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... original drawings survives ——in this case at the Louvre, Paris. It is reproduced as “Mountain Ravine” in Charles de Tolnay's The Drawing; of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Tolnay considers it to be the sole surviving original working drawing ...
... original drawings survives ——in this case at the Louvre, Paris. It is reproduced as “Mountain Ravine” in Charles de Tolnay's The Drawing; of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Tolnay considers it to be the sole surviving original working drawing ...
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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