Month: January 2013

The Beggars (1568)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Beggars (The Cripples) 1568 Oil on panel, 18.5 x 21.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The real meaning of the scene, in particular the meaning of the motif of fox tails (a motif dear to…

Albertina (Vienna)

Founded: 1776 Location: Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna Website: https://www.albertina.at/en/home Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Painter and the Buyer (c.1566) • Signac, Paul (1863-1935): Venise, le nuage rose (1909) See also: • Museums | Vienna (Austria)

The Peasant Wedding (c.1568)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Peasant Wedding c.1568 Oil on oak, 113 × 164 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The apparent “snapshot” of this picture is in fact carefully composed. Dispensing with allegorical meaning the painting is a realistic…

Nini López

Nini-Gueule-de-Raie, or “fish face” Nini López in Art: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La loge 1874 Courtauld Institute Galleries, London     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Nini dans le jardin 1876 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Nini Lopez 1876 Musée…

The Peasant Dance (c.1568)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Peasant Dance c.1568 Oil on oak panel, 114 × 164 × 3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: BRVEGEL The opening dance of the country fair is depicted: a traditional leaping dance which…

Wilton House (Wiltshire)

1544: Buildings and land are granted by Henry VIII to Sir William Herbert Location: The Estate Office, Wilton, Salisbury SP2 0BJ, UK Website: https://www.wiltonhouse.co.uk/ Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565) See also: • Houses | England | UK

1544

Rulers: • Alfonso d’Avalos d’Aquino, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (1538-1546) • Carlos I, King of Spain (1516-1556) • Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1558) • Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569) • François I, King of France (1515-1547) • Henry VIII, King of England (1509-1547) • Henry VIII, King…

The Harvesters (1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Harvesters (August-September) 1565 Oil on wood, 119 x 162 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this work, the viewer is transported to a hot summer day in the Netherlands. It belongs to a…

The Triumph of Death (1562-1563)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Oil on panel, 117 x 162 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In this moral work, the triumph of Death over mundane things is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing…