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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - Peasant weddingPeasant weddingPieter Bruegel The Elder

About the Artist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1526/30 - 1569) was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, renowned for his depictions of peasant life. His works often portray...

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - Peasant WeddingPeasant WeddingPieter Bruegel The Elder

Bruegel has created a virtuoso structure in his depiction of a peasant celebration: the long, crowded banquet table creates a diagonal on which all the figures in the composition are oriented. From outside, where it is still daylight, other guests are pressing into the room. One of the bagpipe-playe...

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
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Pieter Bruegel The Elder - The \Little\-- Tower of Babel--The \Little\'' Tower of Babel''Pieter Bruegel The Elder

The 'Little' Tower of Babel, c. 1563, is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. They depict the construction of the Tower of Babel, which according to the Book of Genesis in the Bible was a tower built by a unified, mono-lingual humanity as a mark of their achievement. Bruegel's depictio...

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

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