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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Very slight tan to page edges but Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Probably the most popular of Flemish painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder has become a legendary figure whose work has stimulated the curiosity the research and the study of diverse historians and critics from many countries. Unlike most of his contemporaries Bruegel rejected pictorial fashions of the day and the romanticism of an Italianate style. Groun- ded in the traditions of his own country he chose rather to develop the conventions of Flemish genre painting and to derive inspiration from the great medieval master of the bizarre Hieronymus Bosch. Bruegel’s paintings chronicle the festivals ceremonies traditions and everyday events of 16th century peasant life. Under his scrutiny the country scene reveals itself in fine detail; characters reveal themselves through their actions or by virtue of a gesture or grimace. There are no individual portraits and the figures cut a pattern of exalted movement on a canvas animated by the rhythm of colour. Bruegel’s scenes are justifiably famous. Images such as “Hunters in the Snow” “The Harvest” and “The Parable of the Blind” are known world-wide and are essential to the visual vocabulary of the artistically knowledgeable. (OS)