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…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Children’s Games 1560 Oil on oak panel, 116,4 × 160,3 × 1,2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna From a bird’s eye perspective – this was the only way Bruegel could render visible the impressive crowd of figures…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on oak panel, 117.2 x 163.8 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SHELFMARK / INSCRIPTION: Reference lower right: BRVEGEL • 1559 The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as…
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…
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) 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…
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
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Sant’Anna, la Vergine e il Bambino con l’agnellino (Virgin and Child with St Anne) c.1503–1519 Oil on poplar, 168 x 130 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting was started around 1503 at least, in Florence, then was…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) & Workshop San Giovanni nel deserto, Bacco (St John in the Wilderness, Bacchus) c.1517–1520 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 177 x 115 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris We do not know the circumstances of the creation of…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Ritratto di Ginevra de’ Benci (Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci) c.1474–1478 Oil on panel 38.1 x 37 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This square portrait shows the head and shoulders of a young woman in front…