The Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569 ... There’s the poignant "Two Monkeys," the Falstaffian "Peasant Dance," and the cast-of-thousands "Christ Carrying the Cross ...

Pieter Bruegel was born nine years after Bosch ... signaling their importance (“The Peasant Dance”). That was new. Fully human, Bruegel’s peasants are far from perfect, yet none are beset ...

The reputation of Pieter Bruegel the Elder ... Known for his rich, strange and stirring depictions of peasant life, Bruegel turned a keen eye on early modern Europe. This fall, visitors to ...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder ... versions of his father’s Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, 25 of The Peasant Lawyer, and 31 of the 100 existing versions of the riotous Wedding Dance in the Open Air.

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 ...

For his part, Toby Ferris wanted to stand before every painting by the Dutch Renaissance artist Pieter ... dance,” Ferris writes about the “The Village Kermis,” better known as “The ...

In 1566, Pieter Bruegel the Elder completed "The Wedding Dance," an animated depiction of no-holds-barred carousing that was instantly popular and copied -- drunken peasants, bulging codpieces ...

To mark the 450th anniversary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s death, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is showcasing its painting by the Netherlandish master: The Wedding Dance of 1566 ...

This masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder captures the heat of ... Koerner writes — to “lay down our gaze as the sleeping peasant has his pitchfork.” As sinners in Dante’s “Inferno ...

stoked so much controversy that they were once censored out of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s 1566 painting The Wedding Dance. Now, art buffs have the chance to view the painting and its jovial cast ...