Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale

by Elizabeth Alice Honig

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 standard--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271071087
• ISBN13: 9780271071084
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 10.2"