中文简介：

老彼得·勃鲁盖尔（Pieter Bruegel the Elder，约

1526/30–1569）的生活和时代充满了鲜明的文化冲突。他目睹了宗教战争、阿尔巴公爵作为荷兰总督的残酷统治，以及宗教裁判所的明显影响。直到金天，这位佛兰德艺术家仍然笼罩在神秘之中。我们既不知道他出生在哪里，也不知道他出生的具体时间。虽然早期学术强调他的绘画和平面作品的乡土特色，但现代研究更加重视其人文内容。勃鲁盖尔初是出版商希罗尼穆斯·科克的印刷设计师，创作了许多印刷系列，并在整个欧洲发行。这些作品描绘了罪恶和美德以及欢乐的农民节日和一览无遗的风景全景。然后，他越来越多地转向绘画，为安特卫普和布鲁塞尔的文化精英工作。他没有将现实理想化，而是勇敢地面对他那个时代的问题，解决宗教战争的恐怖并对教会机构采取批评立场。为此，勃鲁盖尔发展了自己的异议绘画语言，将无害的日常场景与潜意识的陈述结合在一起，以避免产生影响。这本书源自我们的

XXL

专着，塔申在该专着中对艺术家的作品进行了全面的摄影调查。结果拥有非凡的细节和复制品，以前所未囿的清晰度揭示了勃鲁盖​​尔传奇般的宇宙。为了庆祝我们成立 40

周年，这本书展示了全部 40 幅画作，并附有放大的细节和易于理解、身临其境的文本。关于该系列 TASCHEN 40！自 1980

年我们作为文化考古学家开始工作以来，TASCHEN

已成为无障碍出版的代名词，以无与伦比的价格帮助世界各地的书虫策划自己的艺术、人类学和椿药图书馆。金天，我们恪守公司信条，庆祝精彩图书问世 40 周年。 40

系列推出了我们项目中一些日月星的新版本 - 现在更加紧凑，价格更友好，并且仍然以同样的承诺实现了无可挑剔的生产。

英文简介：

The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30–1569) were marked

by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba’s

brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the

Inquisition. To this day, the Flemish artist remains shrouded in mystery. We

know neither where nor exactly when he was born. But while early scholarship

emphasized the vernacular character of his painting and graphic work, modern

research has attached greater importance to its humanistic content.Starting

out as a print designer for publisher Hieronymus Cock, Bruegel produced

numerous print series that were distributed throughout Europe. These depicted

vices and virtues alongside jolly peasant festivals and sweeping landscape

panoramas. He then increasingly turned to painting, working for the cultural

elite of Antwerp and Brussels. Rather than idealizing reality, he bravely

confronted the issues of his day, addressing the horrors of religious warfare

and taking a critical stand against the institution of the Church. To this

end, Bruegel developed his own pictorial language of dissidence, lacing

innocuous everyday scenes with subliminal statements in order to escape

repercussions.This book is derived from our XXL monograph, which saw TASCHEN

undertake a comprehensive photographic survey of the artist’s oeuvre. The

result boasts exceptional details and reproductions, unveiling Bruegel’s

larger-than-life universe with unprecedented clarity. This volume, in

celebration of our 40th anniversary, presents all 40 paintings, accompanied by

enlarged details and accessible, immersive texts.About the seriesTASCHEN is

40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has

become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the

world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an

unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying

true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the

stars of our program―now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized

with the same commitment to impeccable production.