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 iii
... Symbols 6 . A Chronology of the Creative Life of Peter Bruegel the Elder iX INTRODUCTION 3 I. OUTER WORLDS—NATURE AND MAN THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES Preliminary Comments 8 Plate 1. Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley 10 Plate 2. Saint Jerome ...
... Symbols 6 . A Chronology of the Creative Life of Peter Bruegel the Elder iX INTRODUCTION 3 I. OUTER WORLDS—NATURE AND MAN THE WORLD OF LANDSCAPES Preliminary Comments 8 Plate 1. Alpine Landscape with Deep Valley 10 Plate 2. Saint Jerome ...
Page vii
... Symbols 6. A Chronology of the Creative Life of Peter Bruegel the Elder A general introduction follows these aids, an introduction designed to lead directly into Bruegel's wonderful worlds, beginning with the landscapes, and continuing ...
... Symbols 6. A Chronology of the Creative Life of Peter Bruegel the Elder A general introduction follows these aids, an introduction designed to lead directly into Bruegel's wonderful worlds, beginning with the landscapes, and continuing ...
Page ix
... Symbols. Individual prints are identified by their “Bastelaer numbers ”— as mentioned above. This refers to the number given the corresponding print in the volume which appears as the last entry in the preceding list of references ...
... Symbols. Individual prints are identified by their “Bastelaer numbers ”— as mentioned above. This refers to the number given the corresponding print in the volume which appears as the last entry in the preceding list of references ...
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... symbols traced and crossindexed: a sort of concordance of iconography. The two artists, destined to be linked in history more closely then even Beethoven and Brahms, were not even contemporaries. Bosch died in 1516, a decade or more ...
... symbols traced and crossindexed: a sort of concordance of iconography. The two artists, destined to be linked in history more closely then even Beethoven and Brahms, were not even contemporaries. Bosch died in 1516, a decade or more ...
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... symbols and monsters Bruegel was to revive in his own form, and Jerome (Hieronymus) Cock, artist-turned-publisher, who probably engraved this copperplate and sold its prints to an ever-growing clientele of Flemish burghers. Human and ...
... symbols and monsters Bruegel was to revive in his own form, and Jerome (Hieronymus) Cock, artist-turned-publisher, who probably engraved this copperplate and sold its prints to an ever-growing clientele of Flemish burghers. Human and ...
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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