Bruegel in Detail

Bruegel in Detail
Title Bruegel in Detail PDF eBook
Author Manfred Sellink
Publisher in Detail
Pages 288
Release 2018-09-20
Genre Painting, Flemish
ISBN 9789491819872

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The perfect companion for the Bruegel year of 2019: an introduction to the famous painter through stunning large close-up details in a beautiful coffee table book. Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), known for his beautiful landscapes and peasant scenes, is among the most popular artists in the history of Netherlandish painting. Reproducing all of Bruegel's best-known paintings, drawings and prints, this book reveals them as never before, in stunning large close-up details that showcase his mastery. Organized by his major themes - landscapes, daily life, biblical subjects and festive celebrations - it offers astonishing views of popular works of art such as Hunters in the Snow, Peasant Wedding and The Tower of Babel. The printings and drawings section includes his series on Sins and Virtues. Bruegel expert Manfred Sellink reveals how the painter introduced new subject matter into fine art and examines his use of landscape, perhaps the artist's greatest innovation.

Bosch and Bruegel

Bosch and Bruegel
Title Bosch and Bruegel PDF eBook
Author Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 432
Release 2016-12-06
Genre Art
ISBN 0691172285

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In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Leo Koerner casts the art of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its opposite: depictions of a foe hellbent on destroying us. Probing deeply the visual cunning of these Renaissance masters, Koerner uncovers art history's unexplored underside: the visual image as enemy. An absorbing study of the dark paradoxes of human creativity, Bosch and Bruegel is also a timely account of how hatred can be converted into tolerance through art. Koerner guides readers through all the major paintings, drawings, and prints of these two towering artists, including Bosch's elusive Garden of Earthly Delights, which forms the mesmerizing center of the historical tour de force. Elegantly written and abundantly illustrated the book is based on Koerner's A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, a series given annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. -- Inside jacket flap.

On the Trail of Bosch and Bruegel

On the Trail of Bosch and Bruegel
Title On the Trail of Bosch and Bruegel PDF eBook
Author Erma Hermens
Publisher Parrot Books UK
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Painting
ISBN 9781904982784

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This book is an exciting pan-European art detective scenario investigating four Netherlandish paintings from the 16th century.

Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination

Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination
Title Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination PDF eBook
Author Stephanie Porras
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 217
Release 2016-02-23
Genre Art
ISBN 027108457X

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The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and proto-ethnographer. Stephanie Porras reorients these apparently contradictory accounts, arguing that the debate about how to read Bruegel has obscured his pictures’ complex relation to time and history. Rather than viewing Bruegel’s art as simply illustrating the social realities of his day, Porras asserts that Bruegel was an artist deeply concerned with the past. In playing with the boundaries of the familiar and the foreign, history and the present, Bruegel’s images engaged with the fraught question of Netherlandish history in the years just prior to the Dutch Revolt, when imperial, religious, and national identities were increasingly drawn into tension. His pictorial style and his manipulation of traditional iconographies reveal the complex relations, unique to this moment, among classical antiquity, local history, and art history. An important reassessment of Renaissance attitudes toward history and of Renaissance humanism in the Low Countries, this volume traces the emergence of archaeological and anthropological practices in historical thinking, their intersections with artistic production, and the developing concept of local art history.

Bruegel

Bruegel
Title Bruegel PDF eBook
Author Manfred Sellink
Publisher Harry N. Abrams
Pages 0
Release 2012-03-01
Genre Art
ISBN 9781419703096

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Originally published: Ghent: Ludion, c2007.

Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature

Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
Title Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Alice Honig
Publisher Reaktion Books
Pages 272
Release 2022-11-28
Genre Art
ISBN 9781789146752

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A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerless paintbrush to mankind’s labors and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life, portraying landscapes, peasant life, and biblical scenes in startling detail. Much like the great humanist scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bruegel questioned how well we really know ourselves and also how we know, or visually read, others. His work often represented mankind’s ignorance and insignificance, emphasizing the futility of ambition and the absurdity of pride. This superbly illustrated volume examines how Bruegel’s art and ideas enabled people to ponder what it meant to be human. Published to coincide with the four-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of Bruegel’s death, it will appeal to all those interested in art and philosophy, the Renaissance, and Flemish painting.

Bruegel

Bruegel
Title Bruegel PDF eBook
Author Alice Hoppe-Harnoncourt
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre Genre painting
ISBN 9780500239841

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This stunning compilation of the work Pieter Bruegel, the 16th century's most famous Netherlandish artist, is being published in anticipation of the 450-year anniversary of the artist's death.