Bruegel : the complete graphic works / Maarten Bassens, Joris Van Grieken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bassens, Maarten, author.

Stock, Jan van der, author.

Grieken, Joris van, 1978- author.

Watteuw, Lieve, author.

Contributor:

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569, artist.

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, host institution.

Thames and Hudson, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.

Bruegel, Pieter.

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

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569--Criticism and interpretation.

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569--Themes, motives, etc.

Mannerism (Art)--Belgium--Antwerp--16th century--Exhibitions.

Mannerism (Art).

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

Painting, Flemish.

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

Prints, Flemish.

Painting, Renaissance--Netherlands--16th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, Renaissance.

Prints, Renaissance--Netherlands--16th century--Exhibitions.

Prints, Renaissance.

Male artists--Netherlands--Breda--16th century.

Male artists.

Criticism and interpretation.

Netherlands--Breda.

Netherlands.

Belgium--Antwerp.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Catalogues raisonnés.

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

284 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 x 30 cm

Manufacture:

Bruges, Belgium : die Keure.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Thames & Hudson, 2019.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Around 1555, following his travels in Italy, Pieter Bruegel the Elder start to design prints for publication by Hieronymus Cock, an ambitious painter from Antwerp. The results swiftly won the young artist fame throughout Europe. The large number of surviving drawings reveals the extraordinary care he took in preparing these designs, which were cut in copper by talented engravers. Bruegel's 'Large Landscapes' series established him as an influential innovator in landscape art, while prints such as 'Big Fish Eat Little Fish' and 'The Seven Deadly Sins' cycle proved he could hold his own with the great Hieronymus Bosch. Other prints featured satirical allegories, episodes from the Bible and his celebrated peasant scenes. As in his other works, Bruegel portrayed human beings with all theirs strengths--and even more so, their weaknesses--in original and frequently humorous images. Engravings, etchings and the occasional woodcut form an essential part of his oeuvre, which has lost none of its expressive power 450 years after the artist's death. Recent historical, archival and art technological research offers a fresh insight into the overall body of Bruegel prints produced during or shortly after his lifetime. Eighty-nine individual compositions are discussed at length in this magnificently illustrated catalogue raisonné, which includes new and detailed descriptions of the different states and editions. Extensive attention is also paid to the creation, interpretation and reception of the prints that shaped public's wider image of the Elder Bruegel for centuries." --publisher's description, lower cover.

Contents:

Foreword

Pieter Bruegel (1526/27-1569), draughtsman and painter in Antwerp: An attempt at reconstructing his network / Jan van der Stock

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Cock, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle and the beginning of the Italian War of 1551-1559: A hypothesis / Joris van Grieken

Bruegel in all his states: How small details in the printing plate can make a world of difference / Maarten Bassens

Bruegel's drawing for The Dirty Bridge (c.1566): A FINGERPRINT project case study / Lieve Watteeuw

Bruegel rediscovered: A research tradition at the Brussels Print Room / Maarten Bassens.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America in 2020 by Thames & Hudson Inc."

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The World of Bruegel in Black and White" KBR, Brussels, from 15 October 2019 to 16 February 2020"--Page 284.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and index.

"The World of Bruegel in Black and White", October 15, 2019-February 16, 2020, KBR, Brussels, Belgium.

Contains:

Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569. Works. Selections

ISBN:

0500239991

9780500239995

OCLC:

1098341616