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Unlike the work of his contemporaries Rubens and Caravaggio, who painted on a grand scale, seventeenth-century Flemish painter Jan Brueghel's tiny, detail-filled paintings took their place not in galleries but among touchable objects. This first book-length study of his work investigates how educated beholders valued the experience of refined, miniaturized artworks in Baroque Europe, and how, conversely, Brueghel's distinctive aesthetic set a standardżand a techniqueżfor the production of inexpensive popular images.It has been easy for art historians to overlook the work of Jan Brueghel, Pieter's son. Yet the very qualities of smallness and intimacy that have marginalized him among historians made the younger Brueghel a central figure in the seventeenth-century art world. Elizabeth Honig's thoughtful exploration reveals how his worksżwhich were portable, mobile, and intimateżquestioned conceptions of distance, dimension, and style. Honig proposes an alternate form of visuality that allows us to reevaluate how pictures were experienced in seventeenth-century Europe, how they functioned, and how and what they communicated.A monumental examination of an extraordinary artist, Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale reconsiders Brueghel's paintings and restores them to their rightful place in history.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800

• Full title: Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale
• Author: Elizabeth Alice Honig
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780271071084
• ISBN: 9780271071084
• ID: 01007011
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 1462 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 264 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. August 2016

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