Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel 1563 Oil on oak, 114.4 × 155.5 × 3.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Designated at the bottom of a cuboid: BRVEGEL. FE. M.CCCCC.LXIII Bruegel’s monumental composition became the most famous, most often…
Rulers: • Caterina de’ Medici, Queen regent of France (1519-1589) • Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569) • Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) • Felipe II, King of Spain (1556-1598) • Mary I, Queen of Scotland (1542-1567) Births: • Gentileschi,…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Procession to Calvary 1564 Oil on oak panel, 124.3 × 170.6 × 1 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower right: BRVEGEL. MD.LXIIII Bruegel continues the Netherlandish pictorial tradition reaching back to Jan van Eyck…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap 1565 Oil on panel, 37 x 55 cm Wilton House, Wiltshire, UK Compare: Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap c.1565 Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels…
Deaths: • Fourment, Hélène (1614-1673) • Margarita Teresa de Austria, Holy Roman Empress (1651-1673) • Molière (1622-1673) Literature: • Molière (1622-1673): The Imaginary Invalid (1673) Art: • Murillo, Bartolomé (1617-1682): Cristo cargando la cruz (c.1665-75) • Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675): Girl with a Flute (c.1669-75)…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Hunters in the Snow (Winter / December-January) 1565 Oil on oak panel, 116.5 × 162 × 2.4 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The group of hunters returns to the low–lying village, accompanied by an exhausted pack of…
(1651–1673) Holy Roman Empress (1666–1673) Queen of Germany (1666–1673) Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia (1666–1673) Archduchess consort of Austria (1666–1673) Margarita Teresa in Art: Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Omaggio a Velázquez c.1692–1700 National Gallery, London Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Infanta Margarita Teresa…
Rulers: • Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence (1537-1569) • Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) • Felipe II, King of Spain (1556-1598) • Mary I, Queen of Scotland (1542-1567) Art: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Christ and the Woman Taken in…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus c.1558 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 112 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
Rulers: • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) • Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1629-1658) Deaths: • La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) • Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Art: • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): Allegoria dell’Astrologia sferica (1650-55) • Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663): La Morte di Cleopatra…