Pieter Bruegel the Elder: 210+ Renaissance Paintings - Northern Renaissance
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: 210+ Renaissance Paintings - Northern Renaissance Details
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER Art Book contains 210+ Reproductions of landscapes, religious and genre scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).BORN: 1525 in Breda, Duchy of Brabant, Netherlands.DIED: September 9, 1569 in Brussels,Duchy of Brabant, Netherlands.MOVEMENT: Northern RenaissanceINTERESTING FACTS:§ Bruegel studied under Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a leading artist in Brussels.§ He worked with tempera, an egg yolk suspension on linen.§ Bruegel worked for Hiëronymus Cock, a publisher in Antwerp. His drawings and etchings were profitable due to his early style resembling Hiëronymus Bosch.NOTABLE WORKS:Peasant and Bird Nester, The Flight into Egypt, Tower of Babel and The Magpie on the Gallows.
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Nothing more than a collection of low resolution images too small to be useful for any real appreciation. Sadly, an exercise in frustration. A Google image search would be more rewarding.