Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel

by Pieter Ca 1525-1569 Bruegel (Creator)

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278 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1565

Reviews

[Osiris Oliphant]

medieval garbagepail kids

[Lulu]

The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel constitute a series of 120 engravings published by Richard Breton in 1565. These are phantasmagoria drawn by François Desprez. The plates represent a series of hybrid, monstrous and grotesque figures, sometimes evoking the paintings of Bosch or Bruegel. In addition to bodily oddities, social disguises appear: old men covered with weapons, monks going off to war. Humanity interbreeds with animality, anthropomorphic bodies borrowing parts of fish, monkeys or birds. Utensils are incorporated into malformed beings. Unlike books of emblems, the work does not suggest any specific purpose for this declination of strange figures.

[Red · Rating 5 out of 5]

Las ilustraciones son pura fantasía, me flipa