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The Classic Art Series Abrams is proud to announce a major event in art history. The Classic Art Series offers a comprehensive approach to publishing the Old Masters. Commissioned from important scholars, these books reproduce every known work by their subjects in large-format color illustrations, along with a general biographical and critical essay, commentaries, and extensive documentation, including a list of collections and extensive bibliography. Printed on the very finest paper using the most sophisticated technology available today, they are intended to be both beautiful art books and lasting contributions to knowledge. The Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 1569) is considered to be the first Western landscape and genre painter. He has been especially beloved through the centuries for his paintings of peasant scenes. Along with an essay by Manfred Sellink, this book reprints the first biography of Bruegel, in facsimile and translation, written
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Manfred Sellink has been artistic director of the Bruges Museums since 2001. He had previously worked as a researcher at the University of Utrecht and was senior curator of the Printroom of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
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Bruegel: The Complete Paintings (The Classic Art Series)
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Bruegel: The Complete Paintings, Drawings, and Prints
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H. N. Abrams, Ludion/New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0810993899
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Hardcover. Dark green fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a gold spine. Pages: (8), 9-304. Profusely illustrated with color images. Has a satin bookmark attached. "Pieter Bruegel the Elder (died 1569) has always been acknowledged as one of the greatest and most influential artists in the history of the Netherlands. His fame began to spread in the course of his short life and the popularity of his work continued to rise during the centuries following his death in 1569. It is all the more astonishing, therefore, that we know so very little about the artist's life, his training, his opinions on art and society, and his doings and whereabouts during his artistic career of just seventeen years. Bruegel must be judged by the wonderful ensemble of forty-odd paintings, slightly more than sixty drawings and some seventy designs for prints that have come down to us. Due to the combination of his elusive life with the highly intricate and complex subjects, there are - as for Jheronimus Bosch, with whom he was already compared during his lifetime - numerous myths about the artist and his work. At the very core of his great oeuvre stands a man who more than any other artist bridges the pictorial traditions of the Flemish Primitives and the golden era of Rubens and Van Dyck. But in the end Bruegel is one of the greatest painters and draughtsmen in the history of Western art, and above all an artist with a disturbingly sharp insight into the frailty of human morals, a sound sense of humour, and a unique pictorial wit." VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on back free end page. Stamp on top text block. Seller Inventory # 203432