Last month, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna opened “Bruegel,” billing it in their curatorial statement as “an absolutely unique event, and a ‘must-see’ for every art lover.” Museums are ...

“The Harvesters” (1565) is one of six panels painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for the suburban Antwerp home of the wealthy merchant Niclaes Jongelinck, and this extraordinary work was remarkable in ...

The exhibition of Bruegel the Elder’s drawings and the engraved prints derived from them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a true feast for both connoisseurs and iconographers. 1 The exhibit is ...

Very few masterpieces are as anarchic, in both composition and atmosphere, as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Wedding Dance.” The 1566 painting, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows Flemish ...

On his deathbed, Pieter Bruegel the Elder beseeched his wife to burn a series of drawings the Flemish old master feared were too inflammatory, perhaps “because he was sorry,” suggests a 1604 biography ...

Accompanying an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, edited by Nadine M. Orenstein, features the lesser known works of this famous ...

THE MUSIC is playing and the ale flowing freely as guests throng into a barn. Two cooks bring soup to a dining table crowded with men, women, dogs and children. It is a wedding, but the bride’s calm ...

22.3 x 29 cm. (8.8 x 11.4 in.) Copper engraving by Frans Huys on laid paper with watermark “Crowned coat of arms with flower”. (c. 1560-1565). 22.3 x 29 cm (sheet size 24.1 x 33 cm). Bastelaer 101 I ...

The Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) is one of the most admired painters in the history of Western art. His ravishing and poignant "Hunters in the Snow" is one of the world’s ...

The artist’s “Wedding Dance in the Open Air” spent many years undated and unsigned in storage at the Holburne Museum. Thanks to a new virtual reality project launched this week by the Google Cultural ...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, born around 1525 in Brabant, now Belgium, is renowned for his detailed landscapes and genre scenes. Bruegel's early career included apprenticeships and travels through Italy, ...