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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... scenes, and the like, for which no corresponding engravings have survived. It seems evident from the character of these drawings that they were not intended originally to serve as models for an engraver. They may have been “ private ...
... scenes, and the like, for which no corresponding engravings have survived. It seems evident from the character of these drawings that they were not intended originally to serve as models for an engraver. They may have been “ private ...
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... scene— trees, fields, clouds, and all—writhes and gyrates in a frenzy and ecstasy of animation. This is in art a parallel to what John Ruskin deplored in literature as the “pathetic fallacy”—~the imputing to unconscious nature of ...
... scene— trees, fields, clouds, and all—writhes and gyrates in a frenzy and ecstasy of animation. This is in art a parallel to what John Ruskin deplored in literature as the “pathetic fallacy”—~the imputing to unconscious nature of ...
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... scene—like so many others created by Bruegel in his later paintings as well as in his drawings—is clearly a composite. It contains elements observed by the artist at different times and in different places. Identifiable portions of this ...
... scene—like so many others created by Bruegel in his later paintings as well as in his drawings—is clearly a composite. It contains elements observed by the artist at different times and in different places. Identifiable portions of this ...
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... scene he surveys. In this connection, the print also illustrates an achievement of Bruegel which Fritz Grossmann typifies as utterly novel and “excit— ing”: namely, “the view into the mountains from above and the impression of movement ...
... scene he surveys. In this connection, the print also illustrates an achievement of Bruegel which Fritz Grossmann typifies as utterly novel and “excit— ing”: namely, “the view into the mountains from above and the impression of movement ...
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... scene, all goes serenely and indifferently on its accustomed way. The plowman plows, the sheep graZe, the shepherd gazes at the sky, his back toward Icarus' watery grave. A great sailing vessel rides at anchor, sailors at work on its ...
... scene, all goes serenely and indifferently on its accustomed way. The plowman plows, the sheep graZe, the shepherd gazes at the sky, his back toward Icarus' watery grave. A great sailing vessel rides at anchor, sailors at work on its ...
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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