ART 112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Feminist Art
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6. 1 excerpt on the artist pieter bruegel from karl van mander"s book of painters (1604) A dutch artist named karl van mander did for flemish (i. e. dutch) art what giorgio. He wrote a book that tells the history of dutch art. In the following passage, van mander discusses the dutch artist pieter bruegel. Bruegel liked to dress up as peasants with his friend and crash weddings and fairs. They would act like family and bring gifts. Bruegel enjoyed watching the peasants eat and dance but also knew how to paint them in a comical way. He portrayed their rural way of behaving. Most of his paintings were comical of them but some serious however even those often brought a smile to one"s face. 6. 2 passages from giovanni pietro bellori"s lives of the modern painters, sculptors and. In 1672, the italian, giovanni pietro bellori published a book entitled the lives of the.
