Pieter Bruegel Art Talk by Christina Currie

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boatN5CL1Qw&t=443s

Pieter Bruegel Art Talk by Christina Currie - presented by the In Artibus Foundation and BRAFA

BRAFA Art Fair
Nov 22, 2018
On October 26th, 2018,  Bruegel expert Dr. Christina Currie, Head of Scientific Imagery at KIK-IRPA, lectured on 'Pieter Bruegel and his artistic progeny' at the In Artibus Foundation in Moscow. Russian collectors, art experts and museum curators thoroughly enjoyed Mrs Currie's lecture, revealing the secrets behind the successful Bruegel dynasty...

The BRAFA organisation would like to thank Dr. Christina Currie and the KIK-IRPA, the In Artibus Foundation and its founder Inna Bazhenova, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Moscow, VISIT FLANDERS and BRAFA's representative in Russia Ekaterina Limonad for their support.

BRAFA is one of the leading European art and antiques fairs. Here, all art works on show are for sale and quality and authenticity are two of the key requirements exhibitors face. BRAFA is an eclectic fair which encompasses a variety of specialities, from antiquity to the 21st century...

BRAFA 2019 opens from 26 January - 3 February at Tour & Taxis, in Brussels, Belgium.

Learn more on the international BRAFA Art Fair and the BRAFA Art Talks at www.brafa.art

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26 октября в Москве, в фонде in artibus по инициативе и при поддержке международной арт-ярмарки BRAFA состоялась лекция ведущего мирового эксперта по фламандскому искусству д-ра Кристины Карри. Российские коллекционеры, арт-эксперты и сотрудники музеев насладились актуальной лекцией миссис Карри о сложных творческих взаимосвязях в семействе Брейгелей.

Событие — результат замечательного сотрудничества между фондом in artibus в лице Инны Баженовой и Брюссельской ярмаркой искусства BRAFA в лице ее представителя в России Екатерины де Рошамбо-Лимонад при поддержке Посольства Королевства Бельгия в Москве и Офиса по туризму Фландрии VISITFLANDERS .

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The Brueg(H)el Phenomenon: Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger with a Special Focus on Technique and Copying Practice (Scientia Artis, 3-volume set) Hardcover – July 31, 2012
by Christina Currie and Dominique Allart (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars   (3)
The fascination exerted by the works of the illustrious Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the decades following his death in 1569 is matched only by the intense interest they generate today. At the end of the sixteenth century and in the first half of the seventeenth, the most ambitious art collectors fought over the few paintings by the master that were still on the market. This setting was the catalyst for the appearance of copies and pastiches and even deliberate forgeries. It was then that the elder son of Pieter Bruegel, known as Pieter Brueghel the Younger (whose name is spelled Brueghel here, conforming to the signature that he adopted during the initial phase of his career) emerged as a legitimate successor, producing astonishingly faithful replicas of his father s paintings. This was all the more surprising given that they were often made after works that were by then dispersed in diverse and sometimes inaccessible private collections. Operating within the context of a sizeable workshop, Brueghel supplied the market with hundreds of copies of variable quality according to demand. This enterprise merited re-evaluation from a technical point of view: how were such vast numbers of copies produced in practice?
This three-volume book explores the intriguing Brueg[H]el phenomenon through the two artists painting practices. The technical aspects of their works are investigated in a detective-like manner and are strikingly elucidated with a wealth of colour illustrations. The reader will come to understand the accomplished practitioner behind the genius that is Bruegel the Elder and the working procedures of his foremost emulator s workshop. Furthermore, Brueghel the Younger s exceptional qualities as a painter are singled out from those of his workshop production. The book also reveals fresh discoveries on the father s creative process through the study of his son's copies.