Word: bruegels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...print such a vulgar, ugly picture as Pieter Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance" in the Nov. 26 issue? It takes up much valuable space and its sensuality is far from ennobling. We need pictures that help strengthen our moral fibre...
...behalf of the Detroit Institute of Arts, may I express deep appreciation and admiration of the fine article and reproduction of the Bruegel "Wedding Dance"? It was indeed well handled, and we have already had many comments from our public. The Sunday after the reproduction appeared our attendance took quite an unusual spurt; undoubtedly many Detroiters did not realize that they had such a treasure house in their midst...
...Arts in 1930, it was not in its original state but had been overpainted, probably in the 19th Century, to cover up parts of costumes shocking to Victorians, but common in the 16th Century . . . The restoration of the picture to its original state was appreciated by all who admire Bruegel's realism and detail...
...from the 15th to the 17th Century. The Oxford English Dictionary describes the codpiece as "a bagged appendage to the front of the close-fitting hose or breeches [which was] often conspicuous and ornamental." When the painting was being restored, in 1942, the codpieces were revealed. TIME printed Bruegel's picture the way he painted...
...Bruegel's earthy realism has found a not-so-earthy reflection in contemporary U.S. art. Genre painters and magazine illustrators have learned from him, and to such realists as Andrew Wyeth and Henry Koerner he is the greatest of old masters...