SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE CROWD
Breughel's Crowds
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Faith, engraving c 1559, with the central figure focus of the Fides on the tomb, to the right quiet hooded shapes and to the left more animated groups engaged in action rather than contemplation |
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The Fight of the Money Bags and the Strong Boxes c1567, and a satire on the relationship between war, monet and violence, Breughel using repeated volumes of figure unit traced over with spears and swords at an angle. Blood spills but in the shape of coins on the ground. |
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| The Wedding Dance engraving; sixty figures cavort in a restricted space.A curious parody of a religious crowd with Christ figure at the centre c1566 -trees act as sturdy foils on the flanks of the group. |
