The Age of Bruegel : Netherlandish drawings in the sixteenth century / John Oliver Hand [and others].

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; Cambridge, England ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, ©1986.

xii, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

"The complexity and variety of sixteenth-century Netherlandish art endow it with a particular dynamism. It was in the sixteenth century that drawing attained an independent status as an art in itself, distinct from painting; landscape increasingly became a separate genre; and artists consciously referred to the great masters of the past, showing the tremendous influence of Italian art in their own works. This volume documents the unique qualities of the art of drawing during the age of Bruegel. Designed to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art and The Pierpont Morgan Library, the book is also an invaluable scholarly record. In addition to 123 catalogue entries and more than 350 reproductions of rarely-seen drawings, three in-depth essays contain discussions of the art of the period. Its development is traced from a late medieval style at the end of the fifteenth century to the influence of the Italian Renaissance and mannerism in the 1500s, and ultimately to the beginning of the baroque period in the early 1600s. The detailed entries encompass works by sixty-two artists, including Hieronymus Bosch, Jan Gossaert, Lucas van Leyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Karel van Mander, and others. The book will interest specialists and also general readers attracted by the warmth of Netherlandish art"--Publisher description.

0894680951 (pbk.)
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9780521341967 (hard)

Bruegel, Pieter (1564-1638) Catalogues d'exposition.
National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Exhibitions 1986.
Drawing, Flemish 16th century Exhibitions.
Drawing, Dutch 16th century Exhibitions.
Drawing, Flemish.
Drawing Flanders 16th century Exhibitions.
Dessin flamand.
Dessin hollandais.
Dessin Flandre 16e siècle Expositions.
Dessin flamand 16e siècle Expositions.
Dessin néerlandais 16e siècle Expositions.
Drawing
Drawing, Dutch
Tekeningen.
Drawing 16th century Flanders Exhibitions.
Drawing 16th century Netherlands Exhibitions.
Dessin Pays-Bas 16e siècle Catalogues d'exposition.
Europe Flanders
Flemish drawings, 1500-1630 - Catalogues

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Hand, John Oliver, 1941-
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Pierpont Morgan Library.

Location: Library main 19771
Call No.: ID EXHWASHINGTON; ID:87-B6942
Status: Available