Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c.1525-1596: Peasants, Fools, and Demons (2000)
by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen, translated by Michael Claridge
95 pages - Taschen
It's a book of Bruegel's paintings - I'm not sure what else I can say. The text mostly focuses on analysis of the paintings, as there don't seem to be many biographical details available, and Bruegel seems to have been the type that shunned publicity, as he never did any commissioned portraits or acknowledged self-portraits. Of course his work itself is wonderful. Some of my favourite paintings here are The Adoration of the Kings in Snow (possibly the first European painting to show falling snow), The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Winter Landscape with a Bird-Trap, and The Hunters in the Snow (which was featured in a wonderful sequence in Tarkovsky's film Solaris).
I actually own a set of Tarot cards with art inspired by Bruegel; they are quite neat.
by Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen, translated by Michael Claridge
95 pages - Taschen
It's a book of Bruegel's paintings - I'm not sure what else I can say. The text mostly focuses on analysis of the paintings, as there don't seem to be many biographical details available, and Bruegel seems to have been the type that shunned publicity, as he never did any commissioned portraits or acknowledged self-portraits. Of course his work itself is wonderful. Some of my favourite paintings here are The Adoration of the Kings in Snow (possibly the first European painting to show falling snow), The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Winter Landscape with a Bird-Trap, and The Hunters in the Snow (which was featured in a wonderful sequence in Tarkovsky's film Solaris).
I actually own a set of Tarot cards with art inspired by Bruegel; they are quite neat.