Looking at the face of the Earth.

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  • Author(s): Kemp, Martin
  • Source:
    Nature. 12/18/2008-12/25/2008, Vol. 456 Issue 7224, p876-876. 1p. 1 Illustration.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BRUEGEL, Pieter, 1564-1638; SIXTEENTH century; DUTCH painting; ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1527-1598
    • Abstract:
      The author reflects on the sixteenth-century Dutch painting called "Hunters in the Snow," by Pieter Bruegel. He notes the marketing employed by museums and galleries to sell Christmas cards with winter scenes of old-master paintings on them and offers Bruegel's painting as one example. He explains the technique used by Bruegel as one inspired by his friend, geographer Abraham Ortelius, as a different way of envisioning the world and presents an in-depth examination of the painting.