Descrições da Dulle Griet
1-Walter S. Gibson - Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter ,P. 149-150. "in which an army of housewives (to judge from their bonnets and aprons) attack and plunder devils in a fire-flickering infernal landscape. A wild-eyed crone, considerably larger in scale than her followers, leads the ravaging horde. She rushes across the center foreground, sword in hand, her mouth open, apparently in a scream, and her thin, scraggly gray hair streams from beneath her helmet (Fig. 71). With her left arm she clutches an unlikely assortment of gold and silver vessels and common household objects. Before this onslaught the demons prance about impotently or cower within ruinous buildings; at the left, a giant grotesque head, much as the fish in Bruegel’s Big Fish Eat the Small, regurgitates a slew of unclean creatures outside the walls of Hell. Even more than the Vices series, Dulle Griet evokes the shape-shifting, hallucinatory world of Bosch, and a re- cent examination of the picture by r...
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