Tag: Bruegel

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Fight Between Carnival and Lent 1559 Oil on oak panel, 118 × 163.7 × 3.3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on a stone at lower left: BRVEGEL (V and E ligated) 1559 In the foreground…

The Tower of Babel (c.1568)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Tower of Babel c.1568 Oil on panel, 59.9 x 74.6 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam In this famous painting Bruegel depicts the biblical story of man’s hubris and their desire to build a…

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)

Opened: 1849 Address: Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam, Netherlands Website: https://www.boijmans.nl/en Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Tower of Babel (c.1568) • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883): Nature morte aux pivoines blanches et autres fleurs (c.1880) • Monet, Claude (1840-1926): Printemps à Vétheuil…

The Tower of Babel (1563)

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…

The Procession to Calvary (1564)

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…

Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565)

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…

Hunters in the Snow (1565)

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…

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels)

Founded: 1803 Address: Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium Website: https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr Collection: • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c.1558) • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Adoration of the Kings (c.1556) • Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569): The Census…

Brussels (Belgium)

Museums: • Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique: Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles Brussels in Art: Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Port de Bruxelles 1871 National Gallery, London     Ensor, James (1860-1949) L’entrée du Christ à Bruxelles 1888–1889 Getty Center, Los Angeles  …