Engraving of the artist Peter Bruegel “Pride.” Pride is one of the seven biblical mortal sins or vices. Vice, in religious ethics, moral evil, consisting in the violation of the

In 1555, the leading Antwerp print publishing publisher Hieronymus Kok produced a series of landscape engravings by Brueghel; their joint cooperation continued until the artist’s death. In the same years,

To the painters before Bruegel, nature seemed to last forever. Brueghel was the first to learn how to transfer the seasons and the associated changes in human life. Before us

The painting was written by Brueghel in 1560. Subjectively and compositionally, she is close to such works by Brueghel as “Proverbs” and “The Battle of the Carnival and Fasting”, created

In the picture “Beating babies” nothing reminiscent of evangelical history. The action takes place in the well-known Brueghel Flemish village, which was attacked by soldiers of the Duke of Alba.

Peter Bruegel’s painting “Adoration of the Magi in the winter landscape” is based on a well-known biblical story, popular in Western European art. In the work of Bruegel, the winter

“Peasant wedding”. This picture of Peter Brueghel was purchased by the Duke Ernst in 1594 in Brussels and after a while appeared in Prague in the famous collection of Rudolph

In this funny sketch, Bruegel commented on the relationship between the artist and the buyer. The painter with a brush in his hand gazes intently at the picture in front

“Mad Greta” – simultaneously one of the most famous and emotional paintings of Brueghel. The style, which is designed to convey the horror of perception, lies in the inexplicability and

Engraving of the artist Peter Bruegel “Gluttony” or “Allegory of gluttony” from the series “Defects.” Gluttony is the most “natural” of passions. Everyone can experience hunger and thirst. But with

We have a spacious view from the hill. On the hill you can go down to the village. The road leads to the village church, a sharp spire which can

Painting “Peasant Dance”. In the years 1567-1569, Peter Bruegel performed a number of paintings on the themes of folk life. Apparently, Brueghel managed to create one of his best genre

Returning to his homeland, Brueghel continued to work for Jerome Cock. He was a draftsman in his shop of prints, which was called “On the four winds.” According to drawings

The picture “Blind” Bruegel wrote shortly before his death. The blind follow the blind guide; their empty eye sockets are terrible on their pale, tilted faces, their palpable hands and

The work is an impression of an engraving on paper using gray-brown ink. The dimensions of the engraving are 214 × 296 mm. In the lower left corner, authorship is

“The Return of the Hunters” is one of a series of paintings devoted to individual months. Beginning of such series, recall, put the illustrated medieval calendars, and in the scene

This painting Bruegel wrote for his close friend, Abraham Ortelius, and he was so shocked by her that he asked Philip Halle to make an engraving from this work, which

Painting “Flemish proverbs” or “Dutch proverbs.” Some of the techniques of Bosch painting – a large canvas size and small – figures, countless number of stories are characteristic of the

This is the best picture from the series “Seasons”, written in oil on a wooden board – a lyrical work, subtle, penetrating. Before us – a spacious, dazzlingly beautiful landscape.