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Figure from "Summer" |
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| Early 1500's in Flanders. This figure is taken from a painting done as part of a series depicting the seasons. It's harvest time for the wheat. I was able to see the painting that this figure is a part of in 1987. Such delicate, fragile, beautiful things to have survived for now over 500 years. | |||||
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Brueghel was one of the first oil painters. The medium was made in the artist's studio from raw materials. They dug their own dirt and ground it by hand with a mortar and pestle. He used the medium so sparingly that his paintings are made up of thin glazes and 'feel' a great deal like watercolors do. |
