The Mill and the Cross : a Commentary on Peter Bruegel's Way to Calvary

Fiche technique

Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 155 pages
Poids : 400 g
Dimensions : 22cm X 28cm
ISBN : 978-1-4752-8882-7
EAN : 9781475288827

The Mill and the Cross

a Commentary on Peter Bruegel's Way to Calvary

De Michael Gibson,

Chez University of Levana Press

Paru le 15/05/2012

Broché 155 pages

Quatrième de couverture

« These details show how each gesture, each posture, is so absolutely right, that our admiration for Pieter Bruegel the Elder is, amazingly, ratcheted up a notch... Just sensational »
Philippe de Montebello, Emeritus Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, commenting on the details revealed in this book ! January 2012

« As readable and riveting as a first-rate spy-thriller... »
Nicholas Fox Weber in The New York Times Book Review, 2001

« At long last, someone has done Bruegel justice... »
Patrick Reyntiens in The Catholic Herald, London, 2001

« Gibson peeps into the soul of the work... »
Dan Kedar in Ha'aretz, Tel Aviv, 2001

Biographie

Michael Francis Gibson was art critic at the International Herald Tribune for 35 years. He has written a number of books on art and culture in both English and French.
This book inspired Lech Majewski's film, The Mill and the Cross, released in 2011, with Charlotte Rampling, Michael York and Rutger Hauer.