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.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints

Arts & Photography

Orenstein, Nadine M. (Ed.)

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum / Yale

<p>Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin, University of Manchester. Series; Cahiers de la quinzaine ; sér. 19, no. 15. Physical description; 151 p. ; 19 cm. Subject; Cros, Charles (1842-1888). Genres; Bibliography. Biography.</p>

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney

During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. Rooms with a View is the first book to explore this intriguing theme in European art, with its Romantic intimations of unfulfilled longing and its associated qualities of poetry, luminosity, and interiority. Artists depicted this intangible mood with images of contemplative figures in hushed, sparsely furnished rooms; painters diligently at work in their studios; simple, serene displays of light entering a chamber; and windows as the focal point of views in their own right. Rooms with a View features forty oils and thirty works on paper by both well-known and largely undiscovered artists, including Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Adolph Menzel, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Martinus Rørbye, Jean Alaux, Léon Cogniet, and Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy.

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century

REWALD, Sabine

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century