Peter Bruegel the Elder, world-renowned for his effervescent, rollicking paintings of Flemish life, also holds a place among the finest engraving designers the world has seen In his own day Bruegel was better known as a leading inventor of designs for copperplate engraving than as a painter Indeed, even today approximately three times as many ожтцс authentic Bruegel print subjects as paintings are known This collection contains sixty-three engravings and a woodcut, all designed by Bruegel They have been carefully selected by Mr H Arthur Klein, and arranged in seven categories or "worlds": some of them are landscapes; some are seascapes with grand, stately ships; others depict scenes from the Gospels and the apocryphal books; and many of them abound with the round, fat faces and figures of 16th-century Flanders, which one expects from anything bearing the name of Bruegel Many of these prints, in fact, served as models for subsequent Bruegel canvases The book offers, in addition, cogent and stimulating commentaries by Mr Klein on the general categories of prints and on the individual prints themselves, giving the reader such information as bits of biography, influences upon Breugel's work by earlier engravers, new techniques evidenced by the various prints, circumstances surrounding the production of various prints and similar material Mr Klein has provided much material that will prove valuable to anyone who wishes to pursue the subject further, including a selective bibliography, remarks on the much-disputed spelling and pronunciation of the artist's name, certain abbreviations and symbols commonly used in books about Bruegel (the "Bastelaer numbers," for example), and a chronology of the major events in the artist's life The essential importance of the book, of course, lies in the masterful prints themselves This will make a prized addition to the library of all connoisseurs of art and for those who are especially interested in the art of engraving, it ranks as an all but mandatory item Формат: 23,5 см х 31 см Автор H Arthur Klein.  Переводчики:Издательство: Dover Publications, 2008 г Мягкая обложка, 174 стр ISBN 0-486-21132-0 Язык: Английский.