Tag Archives: Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Misanthrope

bruegel: discarding the idealized for commonplace

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Dave

It can be said that Bosch and Bruegel are not much alike in effect. Bosch’s greatest work is calculated to give rise to shivers of spiritual terror linked to sexual excitement as the primal reflex among men. Bruegel’s horror of … Continue reading →

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bruegel: human foibles

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Dave

…A sober philosophy of man’s place in nature… Bruegel’s recognition of human foibles never reduced him to bitterness, or at least never to any discernible in his group. From the mass of it we can deduce that he regarded misanthropy … Continue reading →

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