“The forest, far from the mundane and familiar world of the city, provides the appropriate setting for exceptional figures, both holy and mythic. Here, as in the world landscapes, figures and settings are truly matched; and as Reindert Falkenburg and myself have argued, the remoteness and grand scale of the forest or the earlier mountain wilderness signal the sanctity of or gravity of the human scene, however small in scale, which the discerning viewer must seek out and read as significant.” WildernessMedieval ArtBruegel Book:Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings Source: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings