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Painting Life: The Art of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder ReviewI'll start with the good things about the book: the color plates of Bruegel's major works, the bibliography, and the information on where each of the paintings is. The book is also quite readable, and I finished it, although upon doing so I immediately sold it to a used bookstore, as I would have felt embarrassed to have it in my house. The book's main problem is that it has nothing to say and describes each of the paintings with utterly vacuous gibberish. One painting reveals the "moral complexity that is at the heart of our civilization" and "points us toward the future much as it captures the essence of our past." Another "shows an extraordinary grasp of the soul of a culture, indeed the essence of our social life." The book appears not to have been professionally edited, and I would have guessed that it was self-published, except that I saw it for sale in Borders. It puts numerous words in unnecessary quotation marks, which is a sure sign of amateurishness. It starts quotations with ellipses, which is never appropriate, and, at one point, if I recall, it has, in the middle of a quotation, ". . . [and] . . . ," which makes no sense. You will learn nothing about Bruegel from this book, other than what his major paintings look like and where they are.Painting Life: The Art of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder OverviewPainting Life uniquely conveys the relevance of the paintings of the old Flemish master Pieter Bruegel, The Elder (1520/5-1590) for modern audiences. Based on extensive research and first-hand observation Robert L. Bonn guides the reader through the scenes depicted in these remarkable works of art, including the "something more" so often imbedded in them--the social context in which they were painted, and how they relate to our lives today. Bonn clearly explains why Bruegel's paintings brilliantly capture the universal conditions of conflict, work, play, folly, and chaos, as well as innumerable pieces of biblical and folk wisdom. His paintings can be found in collections all over the world, including Madrid, Vienna, Brussels, Rome, and Prague, to name a few.

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