Jan Brueghel and the senses of scale

Uittreksel

"Examines the small-scale works of the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, and the aesthetic and cognitive operation of smallness in art of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

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Forging connections -- Hands-on art: Brueghel, Francken, and habits of collecting in Rome and Antwerp -- Small stories: Brueghel and the painting of classical history -- Genealogy: the burden of descent and the individuality of style -- Paradise regained: collaboration as the sociability of visual thought.