Talk:Jan Brueghel the Elder

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please check this page for copyright violation. --Keichwa 18:56, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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NOTES ON THE PICTURE From http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html Web Gallery of Art: Brueghel did not use landscapes as a background. Protruding upwards from a flower pot, his myriads of flowers are set against a nearly dark background, so that the contrast gives them a luminous quality. There is such an abundance of different species that they often defeat identification - over 130 kinds have been counted. It is indeed a tapestry, as all the blossoms seem to crowd towards the front, just as in a two-dimensional space. Brueghel's bouquets always build up from relatively small flowers at the bottom to increasingly larger ones at the top, completely against all our current aesthetic 'laws' of compositional gravity. The picture is dominated by a long-stemmed crown imperial, like a real crown. Below are some blue iris, flanked by white lilies on the left and the red umbel of a peony on the right. The centre is occupied by various kinds of tulips. Brueghel also included strawberries, raspberries and blackberries in his bouquet. This is because, until modern times, no fundamental difference was made between decorative flowers and other flowers. Strawberries, for example, which blossom and bear fruit at the same time, were therefore generally included among flowers. Strawberry blossoms were regarded as flowers of paradise, as the food of children who had died prematurely and as symbols of the Virgin Mary.

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Death
It says here that Brueghal died of cholera, but on the Cholera page it says that the first outbreak of cholera in Europe wasn't until 1816.Kissmaiden (talk) 09:02, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

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Per this old revision, I think this article was originally written in US English. It has developed into a mixture of dialects, which is unfortunate. John (talk) 10:54, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * That's 2012; this 2003 version, probably the first non-stub one, has "centre", so unless anyone objects I will convert to Br Eng. Johnbod (talk) 12:49, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Good shout. I've had a quick hack; please check my work. John (talk) 13:03, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks - so far, so good. Nb, eg "realized" is ok as Oxford spelling in BR Eng, so there's no need to change those. Johnbod (talk) 03:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)