Bruegel & l'Italia / Bruegel and Italy: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in the Academia Belgica in Rome, 26-28 September 2019 Tapa blanda -

Peeters Leuven, 2023. softcover, 245 pages, 25x 17cm. ISBN 9789042950306. Studia Academiae Belgicae , nr. 3 / In 2019, in commemoration of Pieter Bruegel's death 450 years ago, the Academia Belgica dedicated an international symposium to Bruegel and Italy. The proceedings of this scientific meeting have now been published in the most recent volume of the Acta Academiae Belgicae. Although Bruegel spent about two years in the peninsula, remarkably little of his Italian artistic production has been preserved and the impact of Bruegel's encounter with Italy is not immediately noticeable in his oeuvre. Why then did Bruegel go to Italy? To formulate possible answers, the authors consider not only the master and his work, but also the cultural and artistic exchange between Italy and the Low Countries before, during and after his Italian journey. They trace the conditions, traditions and networks that motivated and shaped Bruegel's dialogue with Italy, thus opening new paths in the research of… Leer más

Peeters Publishers 2023. softcover, XIV-221 pages, Illustrated. ISBN 9789042950306. Pieter Bruegel the Elder is best known for his peasant and winter scenes, archetypal images of the Low Countries, but his masterpieces always manage to transcend the local. A defining element in his hybrid landscapes are the Alpine rock formations he observed on his way to or return from Italy. Bruegel travelled to the peninsula around 1552, and his sojourn lasted about two years. Though remarkably little of his artistic production in Italy has been preserved, later compositions demonstrate that Bruegel must have journeyed to Rome, and then as far as Naples and Messina. The purpose of this book is to reassess Bruegel?s encounter with Italy within a broad cultural-historical context and in light of recent scholarship. Communication between Italy and the Low Countries was intense during Bruegel?s time, as were artistic, political, and economic relations. While Italo-Netherlandish ties interconnected Bruegel?s world on… Leer más

Peeters Publishers, 2023. paperback. New. 0x0x0.