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BRUEGEL
"Clear and
well-constructed . . . an impressive achievement."
—The Times Literary Supplement
ISBN 0-500-20156-0 · 153 illustrations |
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Although
Pieter Bruegel's pictures have been celebrated throughout the past
four hundred years, the artist himself remains a shadowy and misunderstood
figure. In a volume which will widen the understanding and enhance
the enjoyment of Bruegel's many admirers, Walter Gibson illuminates
the sixteenth-century world in which the artist lived. He analyzes
the different strands of Bruegel's inspiration, examines his works,
and considers his influence on later artists. Dispelling the notion
of Bruegel the simpleton peasant, the author shows us Bruegel the
cultivated artist, satisfying an urban society's pleasure in moralizing
tales and proverbs, rooted in the rich, bourgeois, brilliant Antwerp
of the Flemish Renaissance.