The Detroit Institute of Arts owns many masterpieces, but perhaps none as cherished as Pieter Bruegel’s “The Wedding Dance” (1566). The merry peasant scene, with its spirited dancing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spain's prado Museum has discovered a previously unknown work by Pieter ... Bruegel the Elder was celebrated in his lifetime as "the new Bosch", but he was also known as "Bruegel the Peasant ...