Pieter Bruegel the Elder : drawings and prints / edited by Nadine M. Orenstein ; with contributions by Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Larry Silver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Orenstein, Nadine.

Sellink, Manfred.

Müller, Jürgen.

Plomp, Michiel.

Royalton-Kisch, Martin.

Silver, Larry.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569--Exhibitions.

Bruegel, Pieter.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Art, Renaissance--Flanders--Exhibitions.

Art, Renaissance.

Art, Flemish--16th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Flemish.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, drawings and prints.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

Elusive life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Nadine M. Orenstein

Pieter Bruegel as a draftsman : the changing image / Martin Royalton-Kisch

Images to print : Pieter Bruegel's engagement with printmaking / Nadine M. Orenstein

"The very lively and whimsical Pieter Bruegel" : thoughts on his iconography and context / Manfred Sellink

The importance of being Bruegel : the posthumus survival of the art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Larry Silver

Catalogue / Jürgen Müller, Nadine M. Orenstein, Michiel C. Plomp, Manfred Sellink.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index.

Exhibition title: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, drawings and prints.

ISBN:

0870999907

0870999915

0300090145

OCLC:

46364828