Author : Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780754660903
In this first comprehensive full length study in English on the art of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Leopoldine Prosperetti discloses the nature of the philosophical culture of Antwerp at the time, show its importance in the lives of cultivated citizens, and reveals the patterns of thought and visual stratagems by which his landscapes underwrite the pursuit of wisdom. The book presents a new model for the interpretation of a range of visual genres, including various types of landscape, that were popular in the Antwerp picture trade.