Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Hunters in the Snow, peasant scenes — the Flemish Homer

The painter of the human comedy set in the Flemish countryside. His peasant festivals, proverb paintings, and the great seasonal landscapes — above all Hunters in the Snow — combine Bosch's teeming invention with a new warmth and breadth of vision. He is to Flemish painting what Shakespeare is to English literature: inexhaustible.

Key works

• Hunters in the Snow1565— Winter landscape — possibly the greatest painting in the world
  Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Peasant Wedding1567— Festivity, appetite, and human warmth
  Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Tower of Babel1563— Ambition and futility on a cosmic scale
  Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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