Bruegel

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DOLPHIN ART BOOKS A magnificent library of monographs dedicated to presenting the work of the greatest painters, sculptors and architects of all time. Each volume, based on the latest research, is written by a leading authority, and contains a biography, a critical appraisal of the work, and fully documented notes on each plate. 80 COLOUR PLATES BRUEGEL ARTURO BOVI Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the last and one of the most important of the early Flemish masters, a brilliant satirist and one of the greatest landscape painters of the age. At a time when most of his contemporaries were already influenced by the Roman School, Italian art made remarkably little impression on the development of his style. His religious allegories, which evoke fantastic and often grotesque surrealistic images, have more in common with Bosch, but, in his use of vast contemporary landscapes as a setting for biblical events, Bruegel established his own entirely personal approach to religious art. As a... Tovább

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DOLPHIN ART BOOKS A magnificent library of monographs dedicated to presenting the work of the greatest painters, sculptors and architects of all time. Each volume, based on the latest research, is written by a leading authority, and contains a biography, a critical appraisal of the work, and fully documented notes on each plate. 80 COLOUR PLATES BRUEGEL ARTURO BOVI Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the last and one of the most important of the early Flemish masters, a brilliant satirist and one of the greatest landscape painters of the age. At a time when most of his contemporaries were already influenced by the Roman School, Italian art made remarkably little impression on the development of his style. His religious allegories, which evoke fantastic and often grotesque surrealistic images, have more in common with Bosch, but, in his use of vast contemporary landscapes as a setting for biblical events, Bruegel established his own entirely personal approach to religious art. As a landscape painter he broke quite new ground; his famous series of the Months surpasses, even Titian in its feeling for nature and for the unity of man with his surroundings. But his genius is most typically expressed in his depictions of peasant life, where sharply observed scenes of village customs are used to draw highly sophisticated conclusions on the morals of man. As a painter of town and country life, and a satirical commentator, Bruegel remains the greatest witness of his age. Vissza