Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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Works

The Fall of Icarus

Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 proverbs

The Tower of Babel (1563) oil on board

A detail of Children's Games (1560)

The Peasant Wedding (1568)

Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565)

• Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, 1553, probably with Maarten de Vos, private collection
• [Large Fish Eat Small Fish], 1556, Albertina, Vienna
• Ass at School, 1556, Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen, Berlin
• Parable of the Sower, 1557, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
• Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c.1558, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
• Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  
• The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples, 1560, Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
• Portrait of an Old Woman, 1560,
• Children's Games, 1560, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Saul (Battle Against The Philistines On The Gilboa), 1562, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Two Small Monkeys, 1562, Staaliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• The Triumph of Death, c. 1562, Museo del Prado, Madrid
• The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
• Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), c. 1562, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
• The Tower of Babel, 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Flight To Egypt, 1563, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
• The "Little" Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• The Death of the Virgin, 1564, Upton House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK
• The Procession to Calvary, 1564, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Adoration of the Kings, 1564, The National Gallery, London
• The Months. A cycle of 6 or 12 paintings of the months or seasons from the Book of Hours of which five remain:
• * [The Hunters in the Snow] (Dec.-Jan.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• * The Gloomy Day (Feb.-Ma.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• * Hay-Harvest (June-July), 1565, Nelahozeves Castle Museum, north of Prague, Czech Republic
• * The Harvesters (Aug.-Sept.), 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• * The Return of the Herd (Oct.-Nov.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• [Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap], 1565, Wiltshire, Wilton House
• The Calumny of Apelles, 1565, British Museum, London
• [Massacre of the Innocents], c. 1565, Hampton Court, U.K./Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Painter and the Connoisseur, c. 1565, Albertina, Vienna
• Preaching Of John The Baptist, 1566, Beaux Arts Museum, Budapest
• Census at Bethlehem, 1566, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
• The Wedding Dance, c. 1566, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
• Conversion Of Paulus, 1567, Kunsthistorishes Museum, Vienna
• The Land of Cockaigne/Land Of Milk And Honey, 1567, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• The Magpie on the Gallows, 1568, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
• The Misanthrope, 1568, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
• The Blind Leading the Blind, 1568, Museo Nazionale, Naples
• The Peasant Wedding, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Peasant Dance, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Beggars, 1568, Louvre, Paris
• The Peasant and the Nest Robber, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Three Soldiers, 1568, Frick Collection, New York City
• The Storm at Sea, an unfinished work, probably Bruegel's last painting.

Portrayals in literature

• Rucker, R. (2002). As above, so below: A novel of Peter Bruegel. New York: Forge.
• Michael Frayn (2000) Headlong, ISBN 0571201474. A novel in which a young art historian discovers the lost painting from The Months cycle.
• Gert Hofmann's novella Der Blindensturz (1985) depicts the figures in The Blind Leading the Blind coming to life.
• Caryl Churchill (1982) Top Girls. One of the characters in the dreamlike first scene of this play is Dull Gret, the subject of Brughel's 'Dulle Griet' (Mad Meg).
• Felix Timmermans (1928). Pieter Bruegel. Novel.
• Uderzo depicts a Belgian feast as an almost perfect copy of Peasant Wedding in Asterix in Belgium [link].
• W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts"

Other resources

• [Biography at the Web Gallery of Art]
• [Pieter Bruegel the Elder at Olga's Gallery]
• [List of all 100 proverbs in Netherlandish Proverbs (in English)]
• [Complete list of paintings. Includes all of the 100 proverbs from the painting, with explanation (in French).]

See also

• List of Belgian painters
• Early Renaissance painting

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