Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife c.1560–1565 Oil on oak, 22 x 18.4 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Such studies of facial expressions, known as tronies, served to capture a fleeting moment of powerful emotion and its…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Death of the Virgin c.1564 Oil on panel, 36 x 55 cm Upton House and Gardens, Warwickshire, England
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
(1564–1616) Works: • A Lover’s Complaint (1609) • A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-1596) • All’s Well That Ends Well (1604-1605) • Antony and Cleopatra (1606) • As You Like It (1599-1600) • Cardenio (lost) • Coriolanus (1608) • Cymbeline (1610) • Hamlet (1599-1601) • Henry IV, Part 1 (1596-1597) • Henry IV, Part…
(1564–1638) The artist’s works: The Building of the Tower of Babel c.1595 Museo del Prado, Madrid .Garland with the Adoration of the Magi 16th–17th century Museo del Prado, Madrid The Rape of Proserpina 16th–17th century Museo del Prado, Madrid Landscape…
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) Births: • Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) • Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) • Marlowe,…
(1475–1564) Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni The artist’s works: Madonna della Scala c.1490 Casa Buonarroti, Firenze Battaglia dei centauri 1490–1492 Casa Buonarroti, Firenze Madonna di Manchester c.1494 National Gallery, London Bacco 1496–1497 Museo del Bargello, Firenze Pietà 1498–1499 San Pietro, Vaticano…