Fantasy and Irony in Peter Bruegel's Prints
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Peter Bruegel is now famous as the creator of modern landscape painting, but during his lifetime he owed much of his reputation to the satire found in many of his paintings and most of his prints. From an account of the Low Countries by Guicciardini (Antwerp, 1567) we know that in his own day Bruegel was considered a "great imitator of the knowledge and fantasies of Jerome Bosch." Today his satires do not share the popularity of his landscapes, because they were addressed to his contemporaries and therefore rooted in the idiom of sixteenth-century Flanders. In our haste we shy away from this unfamiliar language, and thus we miss a treat, one that is comparable to the treats awaiting foreigners in Alice in Wonderland and Gulliver's Travels.
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