End Notes
Bruegel and the Two Faces of Summer
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[1] Only five of these paintings survive. The missing painting is for April/May. The possibility that this painting might yet re-appear forms the subject of Michael Frayn’s excellent novel Headlong (1999)
[2] Also referred to as “The Months”. Bruegel did not himself give names for either the series or the individual paintings
[3] Timothy Foote, The World of Bruegel, Time-Life Library of Art, Nederland 1971, at 166
[4] Elke Oberthaler et al, Bruegel, the Master, Thames & Hudson, at 215
[5] For an analysis of that painting, see https://www.artinsociety.com/the-emergence-of-the-winter-landscape.html
[6] Larry Silver, Pieter Bruegel, Abbeville Press, NY, 2011, at 327
[7] Linda Vardi, “Imaging the Harvest in Early Modern Europe”, The American Historical Review, Vol 1, No 5 (Dec 1996) 1357
[8] William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611), Act 4, Scene 1, cited in Vardi, op cit, at 1370
[9] Richard Foerster, “Bruegel’s Harvesters” (poem)
[10] Annie Montgomery Labatt, Art History 101… without the exams, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, 2022 at 289ff
[11] Oberthaler, op cit, at 227
[12] Paul Strathern, The Other Renaissance, Atlantic Books, London 2023 at 186, cited in Oberthaler, op cit at 228
[13] Till-Holger Borchert, “Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Flemish Book Illumination”, in Bruegel: The Hand of the Master, Essays in Context (e-book) 2020 at 96
[14] Oberthaler, op cit, at 214.
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[1] Only five of these paintings survive. The missing painting is for April/May. The possibility that this painting might yet re-appear forms the subject of Michael Frayn’s excellent novel Headlong (1999)
[2] Also referred to as “The Months”. Bruegel did not himself give names for either the series or the individual paintings
[3] Timothy Foote, The World of Bruegel, Time-Life Library of Art, Nederland 1971, at 166
[4] Elke Oberthaler et al, Bruegel, the Master, Thames & Hudson, at 215
[5] For an analysis of that painting, see https://www.artinsociety.com/the-emergence-of-the-winter-landscape.html
[6] Larry Silver, Pieter Bruegel, Abbeville Press, NY, 2011, at 327
[7] Linda Vardi, “Imaging the Harvest in Early Modern Europe”, The American Historical Review, Vol 1, No 5 (Dec 1996) 1357
[8] William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1611), Act 4, Scene 1, cited in Vardi, op cit, at 1370
[9] Richard Foerster, “Bruegel’s Harvesters” (poem)
[10] Annie Montgomery Labatt, Art History 101… without the exams, Trinity University Press, San Antonio, 2022 at 289ff
[11] Oberthaler, op cit, at 227
[12] Paul Strathern, The Other Renaissance, Atlantic Books, London 2023 at 186, cited in Oberthaler, op cit at 228
[13] Till-Holger Borchert, “Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Flemish Book Illumination”, in Bruegel: The Hand of the Master, Essays in Context (e-book) 2020 at 96
[14] Oberthaler, op cit, at 214.
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