A four-hundred-year-old painting by Breughel depicting children playing such games as Blindman's Buff, King of the Mountain, jacks, Follow the Leader and hoops, is the inspiration for these poems, each describing a portion of the painting.

"Derived from the XXL monograph which saw TASCHEN undertake a comprehensive photographic survey of the artist's oeuvre, this compact edition explores Bruegel's 40 paintings through exceptional details and reproductions. We discover how, using his own pictorial language in scenes teeming with minutiae, Bruegel captured the theater of life." --

"Organized by his major themes, this book reproduces Bruegel's best-known works in large close-up detail." --

"Around 1555, following his travels in Italy, Pieter Bruegel the Elder start to design prints for publication by Hieronymus Cock, an ambitious painter from Antwerp. The results swiftly won the young artist fame throughout Europe. The large number of surviving drawings reveals the extraordinary care he took in preparing these designs, which were cut in copper by talented engravers. Bruegel's 'Large Landscapes' series established him as an influential...