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

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

In 1562 Bruegel wrote a small picture “Two monkeys on a chain.” In the foreground are two monkeys sitting on a chain in the opening of a low vaulted window.

The text in Latin under the engraving “Prudence” reads: “If you want to be prudent, be careful in the future, think in your heart what can happen.” A woman standing

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

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.

The painting “The Little Tower of Babel” presumably dates back to 1564. The size of the picture is 60 x 74.5 cm, wood, oil. Art historians and researchers of the

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

Bruegel does not come up with this story. Even the Gothic Middle Ages developed a fairly carefully differentiated iconography of the dances of death, the triumphs of death, the art

Painting by Peter Bruegel “Landscape with skaters and a trap for birds.” Flemish village drowned in snowdrifts. Winter graphics of trees – bright and openwork against the sky. On the

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

The plot of the sermon in Peter Bruegel’s painting “The Preaching of John the Baptist” is uncommonly presented. The action takes place at the edge of a deaf, dark forest.

Among the paintings of Brueghel there is one sign that relates them to icons: the combination of temporal and spatial layers. In works like this, biblical scenes are played out

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

The most important Dutch master of the middle of the XVI century is Peter Bruegel the Elder, nicknamed “peasant”. He came from a peasant family, but nothing is known about

“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

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 picture “Suicide of Saul”, presumably, was written in Antwerp, since Peter Bruegel lived in this city from 1556 until he moved with his family to Brussels in 1563. Together

Picture “Twilight Day” from the series “Seasons”. Brueghel dedicated the entire series of landscapes depicting a full annual cycle of changes in nature to the entire 1565 year. Landscapes “Seasons”