Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Subtitle: 2 Studies (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures)
Publisher: Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas; Brand: Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas
Published: July 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780913689325
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Individual artists; General; Art & Art Instruction
Description: The First of These Two Essays on Pieter Bruegel the Elder is a critical study of the well-known painting Triumph of Death. Gibson's analysis of the visual traditions that inspired Bruegel's highly original and terrifying evocation of humanity's last hour on earth sheds new light on this familiar work.

The second essay considers three of Bruegel's peasant scenes within a far-ranging discussion of the peasant in sixteenth-century thought. Gibson offers his own conclusions to the ongoing debate over what Bruegel intended to convey in his peasant scenes.