Hang Around the World: Painting #033 - Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(c.1525–1569, Flemish)

statue of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
statue in Brussels

Known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting), this painter is sometimes referred to as the "Peasant Bruegel."

The Painter and the Buyer
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- pen & ink on brown paper (26 × 25 cm) 1565
- Albertina (Vienna)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Big Fish Eat The Little Ones
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1557
- a print after a pen sketch (23 x 30 cm)

Netherlandish Proverbs

- Pieter Brueqel the Elder

- oil on panel (117 × 163 cm) 1559

- Gemäldegalerie (Berlin)

There are about 112 proverbs embedded in the painting, such as "Swimming against the tide", "Armed to the teeth", etc.

Answers: The proverbs and their locations.

Children's Games
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- oil on panel (118 × 161 cm) 1560
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

The Fall of the Rebel Angels
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- oil on panel (117 × 162 cm) 1562
- Royal Museums of Fine Arts (Belgium)

The Triumph of Death
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- oil on panel (117 × 162 cm) c.1562
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Details:

The Tower of Babel

The (Great) Tower of Babel

- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- oil on wood panel (114 × 155 cm) c.1563
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

The (Little) Tower of Babel
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- oil on wood panel (60 × 74.5 cm) c.1563
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ( Rotterdam)

The Return of the Herd
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- oil on wood (117 × 159 cm) 1565
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)