Bruegel & l'Italia / Bruegel and Italy: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in the Academia Belgica in Rome, 26-28 September 2019

Pieter Bruegel The Elder Is Best Known For His Peasant And Winter Scenes, Archetypal Images Of The Low Countries, But His Masterpieces Always Manage To Transcend The Local. A Defining Element In His Hybrid Landscapes Are The Alpine Rock Formations He Observed On His Way To Or Return From Italy. Bruegel Travelled To The Peninsula Around 1552, And His Sojourn Lasted About Two Years. Though Remarkably Little Of His Artistic Production In Italy Has Been Preserved, Later Compositions Demonstrate That Bruegel Must Have Journeyed To Rome, And Then As Far As Naples And Messina. The Purpose Of This Book Is To Reassess Bruegel's Encounter With Italy Within A Broad Cultural-historical Context And In Light Of Recent Scholarship. Communication Between Italy And The Low Countries Was Intense During Bruegel's Time, As Were Artistic, Political, And Economic Relations. While Italo-netherlandish Ties Interconnected Bruegel?s World On Multiple Levels, Bruegel?s Relationship With Italy Has Mostly Been Viewed From The Perspective Of His Individual Travels. It Has Often Been Observed That, Unlike Many Of His Fellow Artist-travellers, No Copies After Antique Or Modern Italian Artworks By His Hand Are Known, And That The Impact Of Bruegel's Encounter With Italy Is Not Immediately Evident From His Work. 'bruegel And Italy/bruegel E L?italia' Rephrases This Question: Why, Then, Bruegel Did Travel To Italy? To Formulate Potential Answers, Its Authors Look Not Only At The Master And His Work But Also Consider The Cultural And Artistic Exchange Between Italy And The Low Countries Before, During, And Following Bruegel's Italian Travels. In Doing So, They Trace The Conditions, Traditions, And Networks That Shaped And Motivated Bruegel's Dialogue With Italy, Opening New Avenues In The Study Of This Notoriously Under-documented Master. Part I. Italian Art And Italianism In The Low Countries Before And During Bruegel's Time. Bruegel Et Le Milieu International De La Tapisserie À Bruxelle: L'émulation Des Modèla Italiens / Véronique Bücken -- Hieronymus Cock, Pieter Bruegel And The Printed Image In Art History / Edward Wouk -- Part Ii. Bruegel's Journey And Sojourn In Italy. Pieter Bruegel's Italian Journey: Ad Fontes / Nils Büttner -- Italiana Ad Anversa Al Tempo Di Bruegel: Frans Floris E I Suoi Committenti Genovesi / Elena Parma -- Giulio Clovio E Bruegel: Le Possibili Circostanze Di Un Incontro / Stefano Onofri -- Bruegel As Lansdscape Droughtsman, And His Italian Connections: New Observations On Stream With An Angler From The 'lugt Group' / Dominique Allart -- Part Iii. The Continuous Dialogue With Italy In Bruegel's Later Life And Work. Bruegel's Seasons, Italian Landscapes, And Villa Culture / Tine Luk Meganck -- La Più Delicata Cosa Del Mondo': Pieter Bruegel's Bay Of Naples / Tanja Michalsky -- Part Iv. Bruegel's Early Reception And Fame In Italy. La Tecnica Del <> Nel Collezionismo Italiano: La Parabola Dei Ciechi E Il Misantropo Del Museo Di Copodimonte / Angela Cerasuolo -- Paintings By Breugel In Two Early Seventeenth-century Genoese Collections / Maria Clelia Galassi. Edited By Tine Luk Meganck And Sabine Van Sprang In Collaboration With Maria Clelia Galassi. Conference Publication. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 199-221). Contributions In Italian, French And English.