As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rucker, Rudy Von B.

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and...
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Author: Rudy Von B. Rucker
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Language: English
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As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rucker, Rudy Von B.

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

$40.75

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

$40.75
Author: Rudy Von B. Rucker
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others---have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth- century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much the same way as Norman Rockwell's depictions of twentieth-century America. We know relatively little about Bruegel, but after years of research, novelist Rudy Rucker has built upon the what is known and has created for us the life and world of a true master who never got old.
In sixteen chapters, each headed by a reproduction of one of the famous works, Rucker brings Bruegel's painter's progress and his colorful world to vibrant life, doing for Bruegel what the best-selling Girl with a Pearl Earring did for Vermeer. We follow the artist from the winding streets of Antwerp and Brussels to the glowing skies and decaying monuments of Rome and back. He and his friends, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, are as vivid on the page as the multifarious denizens of Bruegel's unforgettable canvases.

Here is a world of conflict, change, and discovery, a world where Carnival battles Lent every day, preserved for us in paint by the engaging genius you will meet in the pages of As Above, So Below.

Author: Rudy Von B. Rucker
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 11/15/2003
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780765304049

About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor and writer who has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. He lives in Los Gatos, California.




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