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Netherlandish Proverbs

Name: Netherlandish Proverbs
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 80187

Pieter Bruegel (After)

Pieter Bruegel

$450

Flemish (1525–1569)

Date: original: 1559
Collotype Poster
Image Size: 23.5 x 32 inches
Size: 26 x 34 in. (66.04 x 86.36 cm)

$450

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about Netherlandish Proverbs

Netherlandish Proverbs, also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.

Running themes in Bruegel’s paintings that appear in Netherlandish Proverbs are the absurdity, wickedness, and foolishness of humans. Its original title, The Blue Cloak or The Folly of the World, indicates that Bruegel’s intent was not just to illustrate proverbs, but rather to catalogue human folly. Many of the people depicted show the characteristic blank features that Bruegel used to portray fools.

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About The Artist: Pieter Bruegel

Pieter Bruegel I (ca. 1525–1569), commonly known as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was the greatest member of a large and important southern Netherlandish family of artists active for four generations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A longtime resident of Antwerp, the center of publishing in the Netherlands and a vibrant commercial capital, Bruegel brought a humanizing spirit to traditional subjects and boldly created new ones. He...

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About The Medium: Collotype

A printing process for making high-quality prints from a sheet of light-sensitive gelatin exposed photographically to the image without using a screen.

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