Jonathan Fine, the director of the Kunsthistorisches museum, is our guide today to “Hunters in the Snow.” ... In 1565, the paintings would have been startling and avant-garde, Mr. Fine said.

Hunters in the Snow, 1565, is one of five surviving paintings (Bruegel painted six) in his cycle depicting The Labours of the Months. Populated by villagers, peasant workers, farmers, hunters and ...

It is hard to stop looking at “The Hunters in the Snow”. At once vibrantly and icily, it tells viewers about the harsh winter of 1564-65 that led to a dismal harvest in the subsequent summer.

The big art world slowdown, Dutch culture funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow—podcast. ... Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow (1565) Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Pieter Bruegel’s 1565 painting Jagers in de Sneeuw (Hunters in the Snow) is also known by the alternative title of Winter—fitting for one of the most notable winter landscapes in Western art ...

Hunters in the Snow is one of the most brilliant and evocative representations of winter in Western art. It was painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565 and is probably his most famous painting.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Hunters in the Snow” (1565), part of his series of six paintings depicting the seasons, in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder was instrumental in developing landscape painting as a genre in its own right. Hunters in the Snow, 1565, is one of five surviving paintings (Bruegel ...