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Masterpiece Story: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (the Museum of Art History) is located in Vienna, Austria. It is the largest art gallery in the country, housing the grand art collections of the Habsburgs.
The museum holds works by Raphael, Johannes Vermeer, Titian, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder among others.
De boerenbruiloft pieter bruegel biography
The Bruegel collection, 12 paintings in total, is the largest and most important collection of the artist’s work in the world.
Genre Painting in Northern Europe
Genre and landscape painting emerged as as art genres during the 16th century in Northern Europe.
Due to the protestant Reformation, the Church no longer commissioned or bought art; as a result artist were seeking new wealthy patrons and these patrons required new subjects. Pieter Bruegel the Elder is known for his many genre scenes featuring the life and customs of peasants in 16th-century Flanders.
He loved those themes so much that he is also known as the Peasant-B