Tag: scene

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 oak panel, 37 x 55.5 cm Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels Compare: Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap 1565 Wilton House, UK  …

The Conversion of Paul (1567)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Conversion of Paul 1567 Oil on oak panel, 108.3 × 156.3 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed on the lower right side of the rock: BRVEGEL. M.D.LXVII According to the biblical story, Saul, on…

The Suicide of Saul (1562)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Suicide of Saul 1562 Oil on oak panel, 34.7 × 55.6 × 0.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscribed at the lower left edge of the picture between two pieces of rock: SAVL. XXXI CAPIT.; and:…

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 Peasant Wedding (c.1568)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Peasant Wedding c.1568 Oil on oak, 113 × 164 × 3.2 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The apparent “snapshot” of this picture is in fact carefully composed. Dispensing with allegorical meaning the painting is a realistic…

The Peasant Dance (c.1568)

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…

Dulle Griet (1561)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 1561 Oil on panel, 117.4 x 162 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp ‘Like a director of horror films, the painter tried to appeal to all the senses in order to…

Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

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…

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 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…