Jan Brueghel and the senses of scale
By: Elizabeth Alice Honig
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780271071084
Subjects: Flemish Small painting; Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Examines the small-scale works of the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the aesthetic and cognitive operation of smallness in art of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forging connections; title: Hands-on art: Brueghel, Francken, and habits of collecting in Rome and Antwerp; title: Small stories: Brueghel and the painting of classical history; title: Genealogy: the burden of descent and the individuality of style; title: Paradise regained: collaboration as the sociability of visual thought.