Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Vogtherrs: Some Sources of Influence

This chapter discusses the rise of a painting in everyday life in Northern Europe. It focuses on the representations of ‘everyman’ in the art of the early pioneers of genre painting: Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch. It considers the figure of ‘trapping’ in these artists, as a model both of everyman's relation to the world and of the picture's relation to the viewer.

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View of the Strait of Messina, by Circle of Pieter Bruegel the Elder:

The Bruegel Success Story ◽

10.2307/j.ctv1q26mkj.30 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 465-472

Author(s):

Lieve Watteeuw ◽

Marina Van Bos ◽

Joris Van Grieken ◽

Maarten Bassens ◽

Bruno Vandermeulen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pieter Bruegel ◽

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Between Greenhouse and Icehouse

The Goldilocks Planet ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199593576.003.0009 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Jan Zalasiewicz ◽

Mark Williams

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Early Permian ◽

Late Archaean ◽

Climate Modes ◽

The Earth ◽

The World ◽

Per Se ◽

Early Palaeozoic ◽

Pieter Bruegel ◽

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

There is a celebrated Flemish painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It depicts the age-old battle between Carnival and Lent. Carnival—a time of high spirits, led in this vision by a fat man on a beer-barrel, carousing and brandishing a pig’s head on a spit—is opposed by Lent, deflating the happy excitement and bringing in a time of sobriety and abstinence. Bruegel’s understanding of these opposed rhythms of rural life in the sixteenth-century Netherlands was acute: he was nicknamed ‘Peasant Bruegel’ for his habit of dressing like the local people, to mingle unnoticed with the crowds, all the better to observe their lives and activities. Bruegel’s vision of the age-old rhythm of life, in the form of an eternal oscillation between two opposing modes, may be taken to a wider stage. From the late Archaean to the end of the Proterozoic, the Earth has alternated between two climate modes. Long episodes of what may be regarded as rather dull stability, best exemplified by what some scientists refer to as the ‘boring billion’ of the mid-Proterozoic, are punctuated by the briefer, though more satisfyingly dramatic, glacial events. This alternation of Earth states persisted into the last half-billion years of this planet’s history—that is, into the current eon, the Phanerozoic. If anything, the pattern became more pronounced, as if it had become an integral part of the Earth’s slowly moving clockwork. There were three main Phanerozoic glaciations—or more precisely, there were three intervals of time when the world possessed large amounts of ice—though in each of these, the ice waxed and waned in a rather complex fashion, and none came close to a Snowball-like state. Thus, these intervals often now tend to be called ‘icehouse states’ rather than glaciations per se. Between these, there were rather longer intervals—greenhouse states—in which the world was considerably warmer; though again, this warmth was variable, and at times modest amounts of polar ice could form. Of the Earth’s Phanerozoic icehouse states, two are in the Palaeozoic Era: one, now termed the ‘Early Palaeozoic Icehouse’ centred on the boundary between the Ordovician and Silurian periods, peaking some 440 million years ago; and a later one centred on the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, 325 to 280 million years ago.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (review)

Parergon ◽

10.1353/pgn.1991.0061 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 183-183

Author(s):

David R. Marshall

Keyword(s):

Pieter Bruegel ◽

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Draftsman Revealed

The Art Bulletin ◽

10.2307/3177311 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 84 (3) ◽

pp. 501

Author(s):

Nina Eugenia Serebrennikov

Keyword(s):

Pieter Bruegel ◽

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Matter of Italy

Sixteenth Century Journal ◽

10.2307/2541887 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 205 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jane ten Brink Goldsmith

Keyword(s):

Pieter Bruegel ◽

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

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Brueghel’s Two Monkeys – a Tiny Painting by Bruegel, a Very Short Poem by Szymborska and the Biggest Problems of Mankind

International Journal on Language Literature and Culture in Education ◽

10.1515/llce-2016-0005 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 83-99

Author(s):

Piotr Kołodziej

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

Nobel Prize ◽

Nobel Prize Winner ◽

Great Power ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Culture ◽

Pieter Bruegel ◽

Pieter Bruegel The Elder ◽

Poetic Response

Abstract There is a great power in works of art. Art provides knowledge about human experience, which is not available in another way. Art gives answers to the most important and eternal questions about humanity, even though these answers are never final. Sometimes it happens that works of some artists encourage or provoke a reaction of other artists. Thanks to this in history of culture - across borders of time and space - there lasts a continuous dialogue, a continuous reflection on the essence of human existence.This text shows a fragment of such a dialogue, in which the interlocutors are a sixteenth-century painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder and a twentieth-century poet and Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska. Szymborska, proposing a masterful interpretation of a tiny painting by Bruegel, poses dramatic questions about human freedom, formulates a poetic response and forces a recipient to reflect on the most important topics.This text also brings up a question of a word - picture relationship, a problem of translation of visual signs to verbal signs, as well as a problem of translation of poetry from one language to another.

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