Tag: Flemish

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(c.1525–1569) The artist’s works: The Adoration of the Kings c.1556 Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels Parable of the Sower 1557 Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples c.1558 Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma Landscape with the Fall…

Jan Van Eyck

(c.1390–1441) The artist’s works: Ghent altarpiece 1432 Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent Portrait of a Man 1432 National Gallery, London Portrait of a Man 1433 National Gallery, London The Annunciation Diptych c.1433–1435 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife 1434 National Gallery, London The Virgin…

Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife (c.1560-1565)

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…