A History of European Art

(Steven Felgate) #1
Blind Leading the Blind, 1568, tempera on canvas, 2’ 9 ¾” x 5’ ¾”
(86 x 154 cm), Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte,
Naples, Italy.
Conversion of St. Paul, 1567, oil on panel, 26 ½ x 38 ½” (66 x 96.5 cm),
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Fall of Icarus, c. 1558, oil on panel transferred to canvas, 29 x 44 1/8”
(73.6 x 112 cm), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Hunters in the Snow, 1565, oil on panel, 3’ 10” x 5’ 3 ¾”
(117 x 162 cm), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Land of Cockaigne, 1567, oil on panel, 20 ½ x 30 ¾” (52 x 78 cm), Alte
Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Mad Meg (Dulle Griet), c. 1562–64, oil on panel, 3’ 9 ¼” x 5’ 3 ½”
(115 x 161 cm), Mayer van den Bergh Museum, Antwerp, Belgium.
Peasant Wedding Feast, c. 1567–68, oil on panel, 3’ 9” x 5’ 4 ½”
(114 x 164 cm), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

Hagen and Hagen, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1525–1569.


Stechow, Masters of Bruegel.



  1. In what ways did Bruegel combine his native landscape with images
    from his travel to create original landscape forms?

  2. How do you interpret Bruegel’s so-called “worldview”? Think about the
    attention given to Icarus in the Fall of Icarus and Saul in the Conversion
    of Saul.


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