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Victoria Charles,Émile Michel

The Brueghel

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he painted large, complex scenes of peasant life and scripture or spiritual allegories, often with crowds of subjects performing a variety of acts, yet his scenes are unified with an informal integrity and often with wit. In his work, he brought a new humanising spirit. Befriending the Humanists, Brueghel composed true philosophical landscapes in the heart of which man accepts passively his fate, caught in the track of time.
320 printed pages
Copyright owner
Parkstone International
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2023
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  • b9103660514has quoted6 years ago
    His work is so natural that he frequently does not seem to have set out with the preconceived idea of painting a particular moral lesson or proverb.
  • b9103660514has quoted6 years ago
    particularly Hieronymus Bosch, who lived less than half a century before Bruegel. Yet a rapid examination of Bruegel’s work convincingly shows that he worked through direct observation; he studied the spectacles of daily life more than the paintings of his predecessors.
  • b9103660514has quoted6 years ago
    Bruegel’s art is not the result of any particular school in the strict sense of the word. The best of his students, his son Pieter, known as the ‘Hell Brueghel’, simply copied him. Pieter Bruegel the Elder occupies an exceptional place in the history of Flemish painting, as much for the creative power of his genius as for his personal technique.

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