Painting from Life Nature's Unpredictable Menagerie

摘要

"On his journeys Bruegel did many views fromnature, so it was said of him when he traveledthrough the Alps that he had swallowed all the mountainsand rocks and spat them out again, after his return, onto hiscanvases and panels, so closely was he able to follownature here and in his other works" (1). This brilliant lega-cy, become familial burden, framed the life and work ofJan Brueghel the Elder, Pieter Bruegel's1son, and his sonsafter him. Always measured against the original, "Peasant"Bruegel, descendants in this legendary family held theirown, each making a mark, all painstakingly distinguishingthemselves through the choice of subject matter andniceties of style