Pieter Bruegel the Elder, nicknamed ‘Peasant Bruegel’ was probably the most significant and exciting painter in the Northern Europe during the middle part of the sixteenth century. His nickname “Peasant Bruegel” indicates to his subjects: peasant life, proverbs and genre scenes, the New Testament topics set among common folks of contemporary Flanders.
1553. Oil on wood. Private collection. Read Note.
1555. Oil transferred from panel to canvas. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Read Note.
1555. Oil transferred from panel to canvas. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
1556. Ink on paper. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
1556. Oil on wood. Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome, Italy.
1556. Oil on wood. Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome, Italy.
1558. Ink on paper. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany.
1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. by S. Lvov. Moscow. 1971.
Bruegel. by N. Gershenzon-Tchegodayeva. Moscow. 1983.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Prints and Drawings. by Nadine M. Orenstein (Editor), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pieter Bruegel. Yale Univ Pr, 2001.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna by Pieter Bruegel (Editor), Wilfried Seipel (Editor), Kunsthistorisches museu. Skira, 1999.
Pieter Bruegel: The Elder (Masters of Art Series) by Wolfgang Stechow, Pieter Bruegel. Harry N Abrams, 1990.
Pieter Bruegel by Philippe Roberts-Jones. Harry N Abrams, 2002.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History) by Mark A. Meadow..V. Waanders Uitgeverji, 2004.
Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games by Edward A. Snow. North Point Press, 1997.