Last month, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna opened “Bruegel,” billing it in their curatorial statement as “an absolutely unique event, and a ‘must-see’ for every art lover.” Museums are ...

Very few masterpieces are as anarchic, in both composition and atmosphere, as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s “The Wedding Dance.” The 1566 painting, at the Detroit Institute of Arts, shows Flemish ...

A painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), is at the center of a dispute between Austria and Poland after claims arose that the artwork might be Nazi loot.

This masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder captures the heat of late summer — and the complexity of life There’s a comic pathos in any attempt to describe the paintings of the 16th-century Flemish ...

A denizen of 16th-century Antwerp could indulge in the panoply of the seven deadly sins on a damp and dreary spring day before Lent. The great Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, for ...

The exhibition of Bruegel the Elder’s drawings and the engraved prints derived from them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a true feast for both connoisseurs and iconographers. 1 The exhibit is ...

It’s a scenario that we all wish would play out in our own lives: You think that an old family painting is relatively worthless—yet it turns out to be a precious piece of artwork created by a notable ...

The dramatic impact achieved by throwing open the altarpiece at Easter to reveal the jewel-like colours within was as much an artistic as a devotional gesture. The contrast between monochrome and ...

Before 1500, no Western European paintings focused on ordinary people and their lives, writes Joseph Leo Koerner, a prize-winning art historian and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art ...