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Article: Bruegel's Peasants: Art and Audience in the Northern Renaissance.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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Margaret A. Sullivan. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 74 illus. + x + 198 pp. $60.
Bruegel scholars are in an unenviable position, for they arguably study the most undocumented artist of any stature in the sixteenth century. No correspondence has survived, no evidence regarding his education, nor the identity of the majority of his (presumed) patrons. Given such a paucity of material, scholars have developed a variety of methods to examine the oeuvre; Gibson and Sullivan represent two distinct avenues.
Walter Gibson's Two Studies is an example of what we have come to expect of this scholar: a smoothly written, ...