This idea of a noisy, populated town was captured by the artist Pieter Bruegel in the 1566 painting The Census at Bethlehem. Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Numbering at Bethlehem The traditional ...

The painter Pieter Bruegel the elder (from whom this think tank takes its name) pioneered what would become known as ‘genre painting’ - painting scenes depicting everyday life and activity. So to ...

Between them, Antwerp's Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Ashmolean in Oxford own some of the most "outstanding" holdings of 16th and 17th century Flemish drawings, said Jackie Wullschläger in the FT.

Depicting a score of individuals in inky precision, David Vinckboons’ “The Beggars’ Inn” may ... Cock’s big commercial successes were Pieter Bruegel’s designs, led by “The Temptation ...

Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” (1559) (image via Wikimedia Commons) But that crush of humanity is not quite what draws the spectator’s attention.

Aerial wars’ indiscriminate annihilation of mostly innocent civilians, reducing them to paupers and beggars ... that while Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and scores of mostly ...

De Lussac, luckily, went ahead and sent the painting to a Bruegel expert anyway. In December, they heard back that the painting was actually the work of Pieter Bruegel the Younger, the first-born ...

Unless you are a miserly curmudgeon, such as Charles Dickens imagined as the protagonist of his famous Christmas tale, the likelihood is that you have a favorite Old Master painting that depicts ...

The exhibition features Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Tree Man,” one of the most distinctive drawings of the era, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s "(Desidia) Sloth.". “The Tree Man” central ...

To find my own way, I had to avoid these subjects and turned to subjects of my childhood, painting ruins or painting fantasies under the influence of Pieter Bruegel or Hieronymus ... Pope and Emperor ...

Pieter Bruegel’s painting “The Hunters in the Snow” has featured in a clutch of films, novels and poems, too. In Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary science-fiction movie of 1972, “Solaris ...