Pieter Bruegel
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Pieter Bruegel Details
Review Praise for author Larry Silver's Hieronymous Bosch: "Enormously impressive in its scholarly detail." -Art Times "Every page proclaims high seriousness. This is the scholarly volume on the artist for our time." -Arizona Daily Star "His explications of the paintings and their influence on other artists, most notably Pieter Bruegel the Elder, contain many fresh insights." -Bloomsbury Review Read more About the Author Larry Silver, a historian of Northern Renaissance art, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is currently Farquhar Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. His other books include Hieronymus Bosch (Abbeville Press), the general survey Art in History, and Landscapes and Peasant Scenes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market. Read more
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An earlier reviewer pointed out the problem of the missing picture in this book but since then nobody has commented on it. I thought it was high time somebody else did.Chapter I is entitled 'God in the Details' but ironically a number of the details referred to are not illustrated because the main photograph of the painting in question ('Christ Carrying the Cross') is quite heavily cropped. I have subsequently inserted my own printed copy of the painting into the book, but do-it-yourself-editing in a book this expensive was not quite what I had in mind when I purchased it.Otherwise the text and the illustrations are of a high quality but never quite redeem this curious editing lapse.
