Pieter Bruegel the Elder : drawings and prints
Title:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder : drawings and prints
Author:
Orenstein, Nadine, editor.
ISBN:
9780870999901
9780870999918
9780300090147
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition held May 24-Aug. 5, 2001 at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Sept. 25-Dec. 2, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition title: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, drawings and prints.
Contents:
Elusive life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Pieter Bruegel as a draftsman : the changing image / Images to print : Pieter Bruegel's engagement with printmaking / "The very lively and whimsical Pieter Bruegel" : thoughts on his iconography and context / The importance of being Bruegel : the posthumus survival of the art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Catalogue
Abstract:
One of the most beloved of Netherlandish artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525/30¿́¿1569) is best known today for his paintings of peasants and proverbs. He is now less commonly recognized as the inventive and influential draftsman who brought a new naturalism to the rendering of landscape and who created a body of print designs that pointedly dissects the imperfections of human nature, even though it was through this exceptional graphic work that Bruegel's art achieved widespread fame during the sixteenth century. This catalogue accompanied the first major exhibition devoted solely to Bruegel's remarkable drawings and prints, which have recently been the subject of research that has given rise to a reevaluation of the parameters of Bruegel's oeuvre. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website
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