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Thứ Năm, 3 tháng 7, 2014

Pieter Bruegel The Elder And His Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. He was nicknamed Peasant Bruegel to distinguish him from other members of the Bruegel dynasty. He was the greatest member of a large and important southern Netherlandish family of artists active for four generation in the 16th and 17th centuries.

According to Karl van Mander, a Dutch biographer, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, an Antwerp painter, served as the master to Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It was the daughter of Pieter Coecke that Pieter Bruegel later on married in 1563.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder went to Italy between 1552 and 1553, presumably by way of France. He met the miniaturist Giulio Clovio, on his visit to Rome. Giulio listed three paintings by Pieter in his will of 1578. However, the paintings, which apparently consisted of landscapes, did not survive the test of time.

There is evidence to suggest that Pieter Bruegel the Elder was attempting to substitute a new and moral eschatology for the traditional view of the Christian cosmos of Bosch in his series of engravings, Seven Deadly Sins. This was despite of efforts to dismiss the engravings as fascinating drolleries.

In Combat of Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder showed a new sensitivity to color, specifically in the use of bright primary hues and a rhythmic organization of forms which were unique to Pieter.

The Dulle Griet of 1562 was still related to the style of Hieronymus Bosch. However it was unlike the works of Hieronymus in the sense that it was not intended as a moral sermon against the depravity of the world but rather as a recognition of evil in it. This capacity to see evil as inseparable from the human condition was carried over into the Triumph of Death, another Pieter Bruegel painting of the same year.




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