Top ten winter scenes. From the Middle Ages to the mid-Noughties, ... Pieter Bruegel the Elder 'The Hunters in the Snow (January)' 1565. Snow makes the world look different.

It depicts a typically rural winter scene in which a group of people are huddled around a fire indoors whilst a man chops fresh firewood outside. Bruegel’s painting paved the way for the other ...

In the winter panel, we slide into Bruegel’s world from the left, joining these hunters and their dogs, heads hung low, as they trudge home through heavy snow: This is a busy scene, with at ...

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