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Artifacts of domestic life Bruegel's paintings in the Flemish home

Artifacts of domestic life Bruegel's paintings in the Flemish home Artifacts of domestic life Bruegel's paintings in the Flemish home Claudia Goldstein On February 21, 1565, Nicolaes Jongelinck pledged his art collection to the city ofAntwerp to help acolleague pay a debt owed to the city. 1 According to the inventory taken on that date, Jongelinck - a wealthy Antwerp merchant - owned paintings by contemporary artists such as Frans Floris (1519/201570) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569), and displayed them at Ter Beke, his suburban home. 2 Jongelinck decorated his rooms with cycles on the Labors of Hercules and the Seven Liberal Arts - both by Floris - along with scenes of the Judgement of Paris, the three cardinal virtues, and Bruegel's paintings of the Labors of the Months, also known as the Seasons series (figs. 1through 5). lain Buchanan has noted that the Seasons constitute Bruegel's 'only surviving - though incomplete - cycle of paintings'.3 There is, in fact, another extant series of paintings by Bruegel- his circa 1558 Twelve proverbs consisting oftwelve smal!, painted plates now in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antw~rp (fig. 6). These plates decorated the home of Nicolaes Cornelis Cheeus, an Antwerp merchant whose belongings were inventoried shortly after http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online Brill

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Copyright 2000 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0169-6726
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2214-5966
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10.1163/22145966-90000663
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Artifacts of domestic life Bruegel's paintings in the Flemish home Claudia Goldstein On February 21, 1565, Nicolaes Jongelinck pledged his art collection to the city ofAntwerp to help acolleague pay a debt owed to the city. 1 According to the inventory taken on that date, Jongelinck - a wealthy Antwerp merchant - owned paintings by contemporary artists such as Frans Floris (1519/201570) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569), and displayed them at Ter Beke, his suburban home. 2 Jongelinck decorated his rooms with cycles on the Labors of Hercules and the Seven Liberal Arts - both by Floris - along with scenes of the Judgement of Paris, the three cardinal virtues, and Bruegel's paintings of the Labors of the Months, also known as the Seasons series (figs. 1through 5). lain Buchanan has noted that the Seasons constitute Bruegel's 'only surviving - though incomplete - cycle of paintings'.3 There is, in fact, another extant series of paintings by Bruegel- his circa 1558 Twelve proverbs consisting oftwelve smal!, painted plates now in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antw~rp (fig. 6). These plates decorated the home of Nicolaes Cornelis Cheeus, an Antwerp merchant whose belongings were inventoried shortly after

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Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2000

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