By Associate Curator Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink, Jurgen Muller, Michiel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Larry Silver
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) was once a extraordinary draftsman and fashion designer of prints in addition to a good painter. His autonomous drawings and designs for engravings and etchings, which have been performed by means of the major printmakers of his day, have interested students and most of the people alike considering they have been created. they've got lately been the topic of study that has given upward thrust to a reevaluation of the parameters of Bruegels oeuvre. the recent scholarship has been dropped at endure within the texts of the current quantity, which accompanies a tremendous exhibition of one hundred forty of Bruegels prints and drawings to be proven on the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, from might to August 2001 and on the Metropolitan Museum of artwork, ny, from September to December 2001. a global team of specialists discusses the recent Bruegel who has emerged from fresh reports, in essays at the artists existence, his contributions as a draftsman and as a printmaker, the survival of his paintings, and his courting to the humanism of his day. in addition they light up his genius in entries on all of the works within the exhibition. each paintings is illustrated and wealthy comparative illustrations are incorporated. Provenances and references for each paintings, a bibliography, and an index are provided.
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But I was slightly disappointed by the Italians, especially by the later Venetians. After Dresden with its splendid Veroneses & Titians – the late portrait of a man is surely the most sacred of all Titian portraits28 – Berlin Venetians seemed very dull; & what a lot of gloomy north Italians. However this is ungrateful; obviously a collection which contains the School of Pan29 and the Bellini ascension [sic],30 to say nothing of the Mantegnas & Botticellis, was an experience which left me breathless.
Berenson offered no discourse or commentary either about the artists or individual works – these were to be found in his four essays on Italian art and in other books and articles. Notable among these was the publication in 1927 in book form of Three Essays in Method (originally published in Italian in the magazine Dedalo), in which he explained in detail, by means of three case studies, his way of examining and assessing pictures as to both style and content in order to arrive at an attribution of authorship.
Drawings from his collection were sold by Sotheby’s in London in 1928. He later turned to collecting butterflies and moths. A long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London, he was Lancaster Herald from 1922 to 1954. See n. 23. Alys Russell Included in Sotheby’s Old Master Sale of 17 May 1928 was a small silverpoint study of a horse and rider by Leonardo da Vinci which had belonged to the Holford family. It was purchased by John Nicholas Brown of Newport, Rhode Island, for £2500. In due course it was inherited by J.