Tag: Netherlands

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap (c.1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap c.1565 Oil on panel, 37 x 55.5 cm Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels Copy: Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap c.1601 Museo del Prado, Madrid…

The Beggars (1568)

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…

The Harvesters (1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Harvesters (August-September) 1565 Oil on wood, 119 x 162 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this work, the viewer is transported to a hot summer day in the Netherlands. It belongs to a…

The Triumph of Death (1562-1563)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Oil on panel, 117 x 162 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In this moral work, the triumph of Death over mundane things is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing…

Dulle Griet (1562)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1562 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp