Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. .(Book Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

Nadine M. Orenstein, ed. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. (Exhibition Catalogue: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.) New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xii + 323 pp. illus. $60 (d), $45 (pbk). ISBN: 0-87099-990-7 (cl), 0-87099-991-5 (pbk).

What did Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-69) create? This is a central question underlying a superb exhibition of Bruegel and Bruegelesque graphic works organized by Nadine Orenstein (curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Manfred Sellink (director, ...

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