Breugel, Pieter (The Elder)

   Pieter Breughel is a great, great artist.  I first saw "the triumph of death" after i read about it's grotesque images in the Anne Rice novel, interview with the vampire.

Landscape with the fall of Icarus 178k

This painting is a landscape, something typical of Breugels paintings.

Fall of the Rebel Angels 116k

This painting depicts angels that would dare oppose god being hurtled out of heaven in a storm. One of my personal favorites.

Netherlandish Proverbs 220k

This painting shows a small villiage in the netherlands who has become very problem stricken and are in pain and grief which is visible throughout the townspeople.

Triumph of Death 216k

This is my favorite Breugel painting.  It shows armies of skeletal monstrosities performing torturous acts upon us mortals by decapitation, impalation, hanging, among other ways.

Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) 200k

This painting is preticularly interesting in that it contains several, and i mean several wierd beasts, mosters and mutants of all sorts.

Tower of Babel 196k

The tower of babel is one of many religios scenes painted by breugel during his life time.

The "Little" tower of Babel 184k

Another rendition of the Tower of Babel, this copy quite obviously has a different color scheme and the original print was about half the size of the other tower of babel, hence the name "little".

The Adoration of the Kings 205k

This is perhaps the most famous scene in the New Testament, the scene where the three kings bring gifts to baby jesus.  Done in a way only breugel could have done it.

Procession to Cavalry 231k

It is, quite simply, what the name suggests.  Horse riding cavalry helping a horde of people.

The Beggars 90k

An assortment of physically inept people, mostly with leg injuries/wooden legs gathered together in a central image.

The Peasent Dance 150k

A few working class citizens of the 16th century boogying on the street.

There.  Those are the most popular works of Pieter Breugel, one of my favorite of the renaissance painters.  I hope you enjoyed.

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