Gregory Amenoff on Pieter Bruegel
Painters on Paintings
Gregory Amenoff considers the cycle of seasons paintings by Pieter Bruegel. Amenoff writes: "In his Seasons cycle, Bruegel lifts much from [Joachim] Patinir structurally and stylistically, but he does something radical and distinct from his predecessor by animating his figures only according to the reality of the seasonal condition in which they appear. The characters