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Nadine M. Orenstein, "Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints"

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Nadine M. Orenstein, "Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints"

Nadine M. Orenstein, "Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints"
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale Un Pr | 1981 | ISBN: 0870999907/0300090145 | English | PDF | 323 pages | 82.94 Mb

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) was a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints as well as a great painter. His independent drawings and designs for engravings and etchings, which were carried out by the leading printmakers of his day, have fascinated scholars and the general public alike since they were created. They have recently been the subject of research that has given rise to a reevaluation of the parameters of Bruegel's oeuvre. The new scholarship has been brought to bear in the texts of the present volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of 140 of Bruegel's prints and drawings to be shown at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, from May to August 2001 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September to December 2001. An international group of experts discusses the new Bruegel who has emerged from recent studies, in essays on the artist's life, his contributions as a draftsman and as a printmaker, the survival of his art, and his relationship to the humanism of his day. They also illuminate his genius in entries on all the works in the exhibition. Every work is illustrated and rich comparative illustrations are included. Provenances and references for every work, a bibliography, and an index are supplied.

One of the greatest Netherlandish artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–1569) is best known today for his paintings of peasant life. Yet is was above all through his exceptional graphic work that he achieved widespread fame during the sixteenth century. His drawings and prints made after his designs, while based on traditional sources, are innovative and independent, and they are wide ranging in their subject matter.

Among Bruegel's foremost achievements in the graphic realm is the naturalistic rendering of landscapes. In many instances inspired by the Alpine mountains and valleys the artists encountered during a journey in Italy he made as a young man, these views synthesize the imagery of Bruegel's Italian and Netherlandish predecessors at the same time they represent a new and highly influential departure: an independent landscape genre entirely focused on nature. Indeed, a sixteenth-century authors famously wrote of Bruegel, "he teaches us to represent … the angular, rocky Alps, the dizzying views down into a deep valley, steep cliffs, pine trees that kiss the clouds, far distances, and rushing streams." The master also created a body of peerless figurative designs featuring demons, virtuous souls, fools, and faceless peasants tilling the land. In allegories, portrayals of proverbs, and biblical narratives he dissected the imperfections of human nature, giving free rein to his imagination and wicked sense of humor. Often Bruegel produced what one early observer called "fantasies and bizarre things, dreams, and imaginations" that were closely based on the work of Hieronymus Bosch and inspired his contemporaries to call him the second Bosch.
Director's Foreword
Philippe de Montebello

Acknowledgments
Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink

Lenders to the Exhibition

Note to the Reader

The Elusive Life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Nadine M. Orenstein

Pieter Bruegel as a Draftsman: The Changing Image
Martine Royalton-Kisch

Images to Print: Pieter Bruegel's Engagement with Printmaking
Nadine M. Orenstein

"The very lively and whimsical Pieter Bruegel": Thoughts on his Iconography and Context
Manfred Sellink

The Importance of Being Bruegel: The Posthumous Survival of the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Larry Silver

Catalogue
Jürgen Müller, Nadine M. Orensetin, Michiel C. Plomp, Manfred Sellink

Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits


Nadine M. Orenstein is Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with contributions by Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michiel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, and Larry Silver



Library Journal
"Given the unique coverage of Bruegel and other period artists as well as the printmaking history, this book is essential for art collections."
The World of Interiors
"Take this book into your lap and pore over it. Bruegel's drawings provide long and rewarding lessons in looking."
Choice Reviews Online
"This is the most comprehensive study of Bruegel's graphic work to date … Highly recommended for every library."
Publishers Weekly
"Accompanying an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, edited by Nadine M. Orenstein, features the lesser known works of this famous 16th-century Flemish artist. In the introduction and essays, seven scholars, including museum director Philippe de Montebello, Manfred Sellink, Michiel C. Plomp and the editor, explore diverse biographical and artistic craft issues e.g., all that is known for certain of Bruegel's life is that, though he painted peasants, and early biographers dubbed him the "`Peasant Bruegel,'" he was in fact an urban intellectual. The exhibit treats these drawings in a new light thanks to the "transformative insight" of the late Hans Mielke i.e., new attributions to Bruegel or his circle, such as a sketch formerly attributed to Hieronymous Bosch. The book features 274 illustrations (108 in color): Bruegel's 54 works alongside works by his colleagues, predecessors and successors."


Nadine M. Orenstein, "Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints"