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The work of Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-69) is full of everyday drama and grand human pathos; his canvases of peasants in the fields and squares of Flanders reveal the spirit of their age with a keenness worthy of Rabelais. In this book, Edward Snow, whose A Study of Vermeer is already a classic, undertakes an inquiry into a single Bruegel painting - the kaleidoscopic Children's Games - in order to unlock the secrets of this great painter's art. Children's Games depicts a lively, chaotic gathering of boys and girls at play: they spin tops, roll hoops, climb trees, turn flips, ride fences,…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1987North Point Press · 204 pages · 9780865475274
Criticism and interpretationGames in artBruegel, pieter, approximately 1525-1569Children in art