The Print Series in Bruegel’s Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish Works

from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition Website

Feb 22 2019 - Jul 7 2019

Just as modern streaming services give us unprecedented freedom to watch television series in our own order, time, and place, print series allowed viewers in the Renaissance Netherlands to enjoy the same sets of images as their peers in more personalized and accessible ways. 

The Print Series in Bruegel’s Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish Works from the Permanent Collection places sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish prints in their original context of series to explore the practices of looking at a succession of images. 

Many of these series illustrate cosmological, religious, and social ideas, challenging Pieter Bruegel the Elder and other print designers to represent these themes in a manner that appealed to both personalized and general tastes. 

This exhibition also allows the visitor to consider the ways in which abstract ideas were illustrated in more recognizable contexts.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

  • Works on Paper
  • European
  • 15th - 17th Century
  • Various artists

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