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