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Wednesday
Dec242014

“The Adoration of the Magi”

DateWednesday, December 24, 2014 at 12:00PM

Pieter Bruegel the Younger - “Adoration of the Magi” - 1600 - Oil on panel, 38 x 56 cm - Museo Correr, Venice (click photo for larger image)Pieter Bruegel the Elder - “Adoration of the Kings in the Snow” - 1567 - Tempera on panel, 35 x 55 cm - Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur (click photo for larger image)

The son of the great Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (1525/30-1569), Pieter Bruegel the Younger, (1564-1638) produced rather superficial but invariably charming paintings based on his father's celebrated works. After a lapse of decades he revived these tender and moving scenes of peasant life, with their deep humanity and pragmatic realism. In Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s earlier interpretation of the same scene, the artist has presented it as a “natural event and the life of the people in a village in wintertime.” His (the Elder's) may well be the first painting in the history of European art to depict falling snow. Both of these paintings bring the Birth of Christ to the Netherlands.

Netherlandish painting; Northern Renaissance

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