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In the mid-16th cent., a young artist made a fantastic journey. He was in his early 20s, studying & working as a painter & draftsman in the bustling city of Antwerp, Belgium. The trip, south across the Alps & on to Rome to see its great art & ancient ruins, was a common pilgrimage for artists. This artist became known as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, whose paintings & drawings have dazzled viewers with the humor, fantastic imagination, & frank understanding of human nature that they display. In this book that will appeal to all ages, the author has envisioned Bruegel's journey in richly imagined diary entries & stunning illus. He shows the 2-year sojourn expanding & stimulating Bruegel in ways that will influence the astonishing range of his paintings & drawings.
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About the Author:
Anders C. Shafer, a painter and professor emeritus of art at the University of Wisconsin, has loved Bruegel all his life.
From Publishers Weekly:
Based on imagined events during Bruegel's real-life two-year journey through mid 16th-century France and Italy, newcomer Shafer's luminous watercolor and pencil illustrations spill across the large-scale format with the vivacious humanity characteristic of the great Northern Renaissance painter. As in Bruegel's work, the pictorial settings surrounding the young artist are rich with dramas large and small. The narrative, conveyed through chatty diary entries, tells of thieving boys in the Alps and Ottoman soldiers battling in Reggio. Shafer thus drives home the idea that Bruegel lived and traveled among real people with all their frailties and foibles, characters and ideas that would continue to inform his work. Together, text and illustrations create a portrait of a place and time complete with the plague and the pope's private zoo as well as an introduction to an artist whose work and themes are highly accessible to children. Unfortunately, the 16 paintings and drawings by Bruegel, reproduced as a kind of postscript, are too small to do justice to the artist's genius; one double-page spread of The Wedding Banquet, for instance, would have conveyed Bruegel's magic more effectively than the miniatures assembled here. A lengthy author's note with considerable historical background rounds out this visually appealing evocation of the man behind the art. Ages 8-12.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0756795400
- ISBN 13 9780756795405
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages38
- IllustratorAnders C. Shafer
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