Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Stock, Jan van der
2. Grieken, Joris van, 1978-
3. Watteuw, Lieve
4. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.
5. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569
6. Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, host institution
7. Thames and Hudson, publisher

Description

1. 284 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 x 31 cm

Summary

1. "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."

Subject

1. Mannerism (Art)
2. Prints, Renaissance
3. Prints, Flemish
4. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 > Criticism and interpretation
5. Netherlands
6. Illustrated works
7. Essays
8. Exhibition catalogs
9. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 > Exhibitions
10. Prints, Flemish > 16th century > Exhibitions
11. 1500-1599
12. Belgium > Antwerp
13. Catalogues raisonnés
14. Mannerism (Art) > Belgium > Antwerp > 16th century > Exhibitions
15. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 > Themes, motives, etc
16. Criticism, interpretation, etc
17. Prints, Renaissance > Netherlands > 16th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Illustrated works.
2. Exhibition catalogs.
3. Essays.
4. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
5. Catalogues raisonnés.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. MDG+ (Bruegel) 20-1701

Note

1. "First published in the United States of America in 2020 by Thames & Hudson Inc."
2. "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.

Bibliography (note)

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

Language (note)

1. Text in English.

Author

1. Bassens, Maarten, author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. London, England : Thames & Hudson, 2019.

Manufacturer

1. Bruges, Belgium : die Keure

Type of content

1. text
2. still image
3. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

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

Event

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

Language

1. Text in English.

Chronological term

1. 1500-1599

Place of publication

1. United Kindgom England London.

Added author

1. Stock, Jan van der, author.
2. Grieken, Joris van, 1978- author.
3. Watteuw, Lieve, author.
4. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569. Works. Selections.
5. Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569, artist.
6. Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, host institution.
7. Thames and Hudson, publisher.

ISBN

1. 0500239991 hardcover
2. 9780500239995 hardcover

Research call number

1. MDG+ (Bruegel) 20-1701