PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER DRAWINGS AND PRINTS

edited by Nadine Orenstein

ISBN 10: 0870999907 / ISBN 13: 9780870999901

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001

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10 x 13 in. Cloth boards. Lavish color and B&W plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers like new, binding tight. Upper text edge lightly foxed, text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD+ ; extremely clean, touch of sunning around spine head. Extra shipping may apply. Art. RGR.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER DRAWINGS AND PRINTS
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870999907
• ISBN 13: 9780870999901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated
• Edition: first edition.
• Condition: Very good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nadine M. Orenstein is Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.