- Hardcover: 220 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 2nd edition (1 Oct 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226723429
- ISBN-13: 978-0226723426
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,770,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Claude-Henri Rocquet--poet, playwright, and critic--has marshalled the full range of his talents to create a dazzling historical novel about the artist Peter Bruegel the Elder. To the few facts we have--Bruegel died in 1569 around the age of fifty; he lived in Antwerp and in Brussels; his work was much admired--Rocquet adds his own speculations on the sights, smells, and textures of Bruegel's world, on the artist's innermost feelings and intimate conversations, on his spiritual life and its possible translation on the artist's canvas.
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Often physical towns and fortresses do not last as long as their more fragile images, which lie hidden from the gnawing light of day, sometimes for centuries, in the libraries and museums of other towns: figures fashioned from a little ink, water, and dust, intact amid the ruins-paper butterflies bearing worlds to safety on their wings. Read the first page
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Often physical towns and fortresses do not last as long as their more fragile images, which lie hidden from the gnawing light of day, sometimes for centuries, in the libraries and museums of other towns: figures fashioned from a little ink, water, and dust, intact amid the ruins-paper butterflies bearing worlds to safety on their wings. Read the first page
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