Claude-Henri Rocquet--poet, playwright, and critic--has marshalled the full range of his talents to create a dazzling historical novel about the artist Peter Bruegel the Elder. To the few facts we have--Bruegel died in 1569 around the age of fifty; he lived in Antwerp and in Brussels; his work was much admired--Rocquet adds his own speculations on the sights, smells, and textures of Bruegel's world, on the artist's innermost feelings and intimate conversations, on his spiritual life and its possible translation on the artist's canvas.
- ISBN10 0226723429
- ISBN13 9780226723426
- Publish Date 1 November 1991
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 January 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 220
- Language English