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- Title
Looking at the face of the Earth.
- Authors
Kemp, Martin
- 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.
- Subjects
BRUEGEL, Pieter, 1564-1638; SIXTEENTH century; DUTCH painting; ORTELIUS, Abraham, 1527-1598
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 456, Issue 7224, p876
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1038/456876a