Synopses & Reviews
Claude-Henri Rocquetand#8212;poet, playwright, and criticand#8212;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 haveand#8212;Bruegel died in 1569 around the age of fifty; he lived in Antwerp and in Brussels; his work was much admiredand#8212;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.
Synopsis
In passages of great poetic power, Rocquet takes us from the certain to the probable, from the known to the knowable, to a realm of visions that wonderfully expresses the mystery and spirituality of Bruegel's work.
Table of Contents
1. The Trip to Holland
2. Home to Antwerp
3. Of Gardens and of Wars
4. Brussels
5. The Theater of Death
6. Rue Haute
7. The Voyage of Icarus
8. Mary
9. For Jonghelinck
10. Fragment of a Letter to Ortelius
11. In Those Days . . .
12. Beggar's Bag and Bowl
13. The Land of Milk and Honey
14. 1567
15. The Parable of the Blind Men
16. The Council of Blood
17. Jonah
18. The Spirit Is No Longer of This Body
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