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The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts the harvest time set in a landscape, in the months of July and August or late summer. [ 1 ] Nicolaes Jonghelinck , a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting as part of a cycle of six paintings depicting various ...
The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), is an oil painting on wood panel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), executed in 1565. The most important of the Lobkowicz family's Northern pictures, it was hung in the dining room of the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelink. This work was originally part of a series of six panels, each ...
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl / BROY-gəl, [2] [3] [4] US also / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl / BROO-gəl; [5] [6] Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ⓘ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre ...
The following is a list of paintings by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. These Catalog Numbers correspond to the numbering in Roger Hendrik Marijnissen's book, "Bruegel", with photographs by the Swiss art historian, Max Seidel (New York: Harrison House, 1984).
The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year.
Pieter Brueghel the Younger by Anthony van Dyck. Pieter Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) [a] the Younger (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl / BROY-gəl, [2] [3] also US: / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl / BROO-gəl; [4] [5] Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ⓘ; between 23 May and 10 October 1564 – between March and May 1638) [1] was a Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the ...
Europeans of Bruegel's time gave little regard to beggars, and the painting provides hints that Bruegel shared this denigration: the figures are outside the town walls and are posed in such ways as to provoke contempt and amusement. The foxtail on some of the figures was a symbol at the time of ridicule in political caricature and real life ...
Dulle Griet (anglicized as Dull Gret), also known as Mad Meg, is a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting depicts a virago , Dulle Griet, who leads an army of women to pillage Hell , [ 1 ] and is currently held and exhibited at the Museum Mayer ...