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1. Description of Peter Bruegel’s The Fall of the AngelsBruegel created this canvas under the influence of another artist Bosch. In fact, a little parodied it. As you know, Bosch frightened everything – his faces were ugly, the monsters were scary, everything was somehow creepy. Bruegel created exactly the same creepy representation on the canvas. Only here is an old story, more precisely the […]...
2. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder “The Fall of Rebel Angels”The painting “The Fall of Rebel Angels” was painted by Flemish painter Peter Bruegel the Elder in oil on a tree in 1562 The plot is based on a biblical story about angels that rebelled in pride, symbolically reflecting the end of the world, when humanity mired in cruelty and nonsense will be doomed to […]...
3. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Mad Greta”One of the most terrible pictures of Bruegel. The horror of this picture can be somewhat explained by the incomprehensibility of this canvas and all the events taking place on it. If we consider the picture “Mad Greta” from the side of emotional perception, then in its expressiveness it surpasses even Bosch’s phantasmagoric images and […]...
4. Description of Peter Bruegel’s Census of Bethlehem (Option 2)The well-known work, which has biblical content as a basis, was written by Peter Bruegel in the 16th century. The work shows the lifestyle of people of that time, both in everyday and in social terms. The creative process of Bruegel aims to show the true, true essence of everything that happens in the world. […]...
5. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Flemish Proverbs”The picture is full of a large number of different scenes and figures. This painting is a parable dedicated to Flemish folklore. The painting depicts Dutch proverbs, including on the canvas more than 100 metaphoric scenes, which ridiculed popular wit. On the canvas depicts the similarity of the village, namely a large house with extensions […]...
6. Description of Peter Bruegel’s painting “Beating up babies”The painter Bruegel is the last in the Dutch Renaissance. In his works on the late medieval type of thinking, he demonstrated the stupidity and weakness of a person. Peter Bruegel in 1566 created the following works: “The Sermon of John the Baptist”, “Population Census”, “The Beating of Babies”. In these works, for the first […]...
7. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Return of the herd”The philosophy of ancient Greece has always argued that our universe is a very complex and, at the same time, beautiful structure, where every living and non-living subject has its own function. For example, a horse helps to carry and drag, a tank must be plowed, a dog to guard a dwelling and go hunting. […]...
8. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Land of lazy”Bruegel was a master of satire. In his works more than once it was possible to meet a hidden chuckle in relation to the Dutch society. So, Bruegel’s picture “The Country of Lazy People” also concentrates in itself a satirical mood. The artist makes fun of a vicious society, outraged by the fact that it […]...
9. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Tower of Babel”Bruegel P. Elder Tower of Babel. The painting was written in 1563, it is stored in Vienna, in the Museum of Art History. Researchers managed to find out that the canonical text of the Bible combined 2 legends about Ancient Babylon into one story: a story about building a city and mixing different languages, and […]...
10. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Seasons”In the art of the Netherlands XVI. Peter Bruegel stands out as a significant figure. The cycle of oil paintings on wood “The Seasons”, dated by the author in 1565, shows the annual cycle of natural changes. Unfortunately, only 5 of the 6 paintings of the painter have been preserved. Other researchers believe that the […]...
11. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Wedding Dance”There are several variants of the “Wedding Dance”, but this one, due to the level of painting technique, is considered the best. The picture illustrates the fun that prevails among the 125 guests of the wedding. Almost all the space of the painting is occupied by dancers, among whom you can find a bride. This […]...
12. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Peasant Dance”The whole of the XVI, and then the XVIIth state of the Netherlands shook revolutions and peasant uprisings. In this difficult time, one of the masterpieces of northern art appears – Peter Bruegel’s painting “The Peasant Dance”. The painting was painted in 1568, currently in Vienna. The canvas depicts merry peasants who celebrate, apparently, the […]...
13. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Hunters in the snow”Like many artists of his time, the famous painter Peter Bruegel created a series of paintings called “The Seasons”. The best creation from this cycle and at the same time one of the best works of the artist is the painting “Hunters in the Snow”. The painting depicts an alpine village on a winter day. […]...
14. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Children’s Games”The elements of urban life – the central composition in the work of Peter Bruegel. On the canvas “Children’s Games” depicts a street littered with children who are fooling around and playing. The picture has no limit perspective. The artist has already turned his eyes towards an idle crowd, but this time with the accuracy […]...
15. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Path to Calvary”“The Road to Calvary” is one of the most famous paintings of the founder of the dynasty of Dutch painters Peter Bruegel the Elder. It belongs to the Brussels period of the artist. The composition of the canvas is quite traditional and was used, including by Bruegel’s contemporaries – for example, Peter Artsen. The painting […]...
16. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder “Two monkeys”Peter Bruegel the Elder’s painting Two Monkeys (Two Monkeys on a Chain) was painted in oil on a tree in 1562. Animal genre. The plot is based on two brown monkeys chained to one ring. They sit on a wide low window, which overlooks Antwerp, the bay with ships, towers and houses, lost in the […]...
17. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Triumph of Death”Peter Bruegel’s painting “The Triumph of Death” is unusually grim. It depicts the triumph of death that reigns in everything. One feels the truly global end of all mankind, although here, unlike the artist’s earlier paintings, there is no devilry. Suddenly it happened that the laws were interrupted, and a certain border between the kingdom […]...
18. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Senokos”Peter the Elder Bruegel in 1565 wrote the famous painting “Haymaking”, which is included in the series “The Seasons”. This is a great master of the pen, who very subtly and kindly depicts nature and everything that happens around it. The plot is dedicated to the summer months: June and July, at the time when […]...
19. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Big fish eat small”The Dutch master of graphics and drawing, Peter Bruegel the elder, known under the nickname “The Peasant”, produced one of his first sheets “Big Fish Eating Small” in 1557 from drawings and was signed by the name of Bosch, who had already passed away by that time. Bosch’s work amazed and impressed Bruegel, and fake […]...
20. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Peasant Wedding”The great European artist of the Northern Renaissance, Peter Bruegel, worked in France, Brussels and Antwerp. All the plots of his paintings did not fundamentally fit into the classical iconography. They, rather, can be attributed to the satiric-allegorical type of art. The original painting “Peasant Wedding” is painted in oil on an oak board. Like […]...
21. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Forty on the gallows”As for the picture, which has the name “Forty on the gallows”, then it is necessary to begin with the fact that it was the last work of the great artist – Pieter Bruegel. On the canvas, one can observe an amazing interweaving of some inner, spiritual disappointments of the master, and some desperate attempt […]...
22. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Misanthrope”The most famous Dutch painter and graphic artist of the 16th century preferred to paint more genre scenes created from the world perception and mood of the people during the bourgeois revolution. From writing satirical drawings, he moved on to more serious and restrained in meaningful paintings with a complete plot. The artist displays the […]...
23. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Dark Day”This is about whom one can say for sure that the author is a gloomy, pessimist who does not allow bright moments in life. Alas, but it seems that way. Whatever the canvas they were not written – it is still gloomy, some dirty – gray. Perhaps, this is how he tried to influence those […]...
24. Description of Peter Bruegel’s Census of BethlehemThe famous canvas, based on the biblical story, was created by Peter Bruegel in 1566. The main theme of the plot reflects the life and life of the people in a social aspect. All the work of the artist of this time interval characterizes the authenticity of what is happening, and the gospel plot masks […]...
25. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Adoration of the Magi”Peter Bruegel uses a fairly common plot of Catholic iconography. The semantic center is the Holy Family, around it is a jumble of images. The picture is solved in warm colors, so the figure of the Madonna contrasts with the environment and serves as a compositional center. The Virgin Mary holds a baby in her […]...
26. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Cripple”The painting by Pieter Bruegel, which is called “Cripples”, has quite realistic motives for the remnants of life, at all times, and even in the modern world too, it is not rare to find such a composition live. Here, unfortunately, the question is different; what was the artist trying to achieve? When writing this picture, […]...
27. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Nest Dammer”The artist began his career as a schedule. The clarity of the lines and the sharpness of the stroke are preserved and visible in all his paintings. Interest in the ordinary life of rural and urban residents resulted in a series of works, where the main place is given to the nature and life of […]...
28. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “The Battle of Shrovetide and Lent”Peter Bruegel in his picture titled “The Battle of the Maslenitsa and the Fast” personifies a kind of theatrical genre, which is called farcical. The picture has the following preface and plot – we see in front of us the confrontation between Fast and Shrovetide, which personify good and evil and all the facets of […]...
29. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder “Dutch proverbs”Bruegel’s picture Dutch Proverbs contains more than a hundred proverbs, many of which have not been guessed, and some are still used in our life. The art historians are still engaged in identifying many proverbs, and more than a hundred proverbs and popular expressions have already been found in the picture. We see in the […]...
30. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder “Artist and Connoisseur”The painting “The Artist and the Expert” (“Self-portrait with the customer”) was made by the Flemish artist Peter Bruegel the Elder in 1565 with ink and pen on paper. Genre – self-portrait. The artist takes the central place of the work, the customer looks over his shoulder. The head of the master is turned by […]...
31. Description of the painting by Peter Bruegel “Carrying the Cross (Procession on Calvary)”The picture was painted on a blackboard in 1564. One of the sixteen paintings by Bruegel, which in 1566 was included in the inventory list of the collector from Antwerp Niklas Jonhelink. The picture was dedicated to the chapters from the Holy Scripture, events when Christ goes to Calvary, carrying on himself a heavy cross […]...
32. Description of Peter Bruegel’s painting “The Parable of the Blind” (The Blind Lead the Blind)The painting was written in 1568. Today it is located in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. The one who happened to read Charles Le Coster’s wonderful novel “The Legend of Thiel Eulenspiegel,” probably knows that during the time of the Dutch Revolution, in the fierce struggle with the Spaniards for independence, all the people took […]...
33. Description of the painting by Isaac Levitan “In the forest in the fall”Isaac Levitan was a true master of landscapes. Most of his landscapes are called masterpieces, even the most demanding critics. In this case, Levitan not only redrawn nature, but also put his whole soul into each of his paintings. Due to this, they are all very emotional. The painting “In the Forest in Autumn” was […]...
34. Description of the fresco by Michelangelo Buanarroti “The Fall and Exile from Paradise”The creation of a mural depicting the fall of mankind from the artist Michelangelo took 3 weeks. Even at night, he worked on his work, and for consecration Michelangelo attached lighted candles to his hat. The image consists of two parts. In the left part of it, people commit original sin. On the right side […]...
35. Description of the painting by Pieter Bruegel “Harvest”Cloth “Harvest”, written by the Netherlands artist Peter Bruegel in 1565, is in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art critics refer the picture to the series “The Seasons”, which consists of several canvases, painted by the author in accordance with twelve months. “Harvest” refers to the month of August, when peasants go to […]...
36. Description of the painting by Peter the Georgian “Maslenitsa”Peter the Georgian, who is known for his battle paintings, wrote and genre scenes. In particular, Georgian began to actively write genre canvases on his return home. One of the genre scenes captured in the film “Maslenitsa” in 1889. This canvas is one of the most famous works of the Russian artist. The painting “Maslenitsa” […]...
37. Description of the painting by Peter Williams “Ride”Peter Vladimirovich Williams was born in Moscow in the family of a scientist. His grandfather was the famous American engineer Robert Williams, who remained in Russia in the middle of the nineteenth century. Initially, he was preparing to become a physician, but the desire for creativity prevailed. He worked a lot as a theater artist, […]...
38. Description of the painting by Peter Konchalovsky “Still Life”The beginning of the twentieth century is characterized in Russian art as the heyday of the genre still life. The exclusion of plot, and sometimes any connection between the objects depicted on one canvas, did not deprive the painting of meaning at all. Now the focus has shifted to color and shape. These two components […]...
39. Description of the painting by Peter Konchalovsky “Lilac”Konchalovsky – Russian and Soviet artist, known for his still lifes and portraits. He worked in the style of post-impressionism, cubism, fauvism, was the chairman of the association of artists “The Jack of Diamonds”. Members of this association denied academic painting and realism, putting their own perception of this reality above reality. The play on […]...
40. Description of the St. Peter’s CathedralAt the beginning of the XIV century, Pope Julius II held a kind of competition for the construction of a new monument of Catholicism. It was necessary to demolish the old Basilica of St. Peter, which was built by the emperor Constantine in the IV century. This ancient church was in disfavor with the new […]...