Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Il festino degli dei (The Feast of the Gods) 1514 Oil on canvas, 170 x 188 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Completed by his disciple, Titian, in 1529 Titian‘s landscape to the left of the painting. Six…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) 1863 Oil on canvas, 207 x 265 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Rejected by the jury of the 1863 Salon, Manet exhibited Le déjeuner sur l’herbe under the title Le Bain…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Peasant and the Nest Robber 1568 Oil on oak, 59.3 × 68.4 × 0.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at lower left (in gold colour): BRVEGEL M.D.LXVIII The depiction is traditionally linked with the proverb…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Misanthrope 1568 Tempera on canvas, 86 x 85 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind 1568 Tempera on canvas, 85.5 x 154 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Land of Milk and Honey 1567 Oil on oak, 51.5 x 78.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The theme broached here is human wrongdoing that includes idleness and gluttony. It pervades all social classes, as shown…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Wedding Dance 1566 Oil on panel, 119.4 x 157.5 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit The Wedding Dance is a splendid example of Bruegel‘s fascination with the peasant life of his native land. Public and…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Beggars (The Cripples) 1568 Oil on panel, 18.5 x 21.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The real meaning of the scene, in particular the meaning of the motif of fox tails (a motif dear to…
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) 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…