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Bruegel, A Monograph
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  Preface
A brief description of the teaching strategies supporting the digital monograph
     
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A compendium of texts and links relating to the study of Bruegel
     
 

Visual Resources
Image portfolios organized in chronological, thematic, and/or media specific groupings

Visual Resources

Select one of the porfolios below to view a collection of organized images.

Paintings

   
  Paintings of the 1550's
     
   
Netherlandish Proverbs, (The Blue Cloak), 1559
   
   
Battle between Carnival and Lent, 1559
   
  Paintings of the 1560's
     
   
Children's Games, 1560
   
   
Triumph of Death, c. 1562–64
   
   
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564, probably painted for the Antwerp banker Niclaes Jonghelinck
   
   
The Cycle of the Months, 1565, probably painted for the Antwerp banker Niclaes Jonghelinck. Five panels from the cycle are extant. The original set may have included six or twelve panels.
   
   
Compare Bruegel's Cycle of the Months with the calendar illustrations from the Tres Riches Heures, an illuminated manuscript by the Limbourg Brothers, c. 1411–1416
   
   
Scenes from Peasant Life, c. 1567–68
     
  Examples of Paintings by Followers of Bruegel
     

Drawings

     
  Landscape Drawings
     
  Drawings with Figures
     
Prints and Related Drawings
     
  The Seven Virtures, 1556-1558
     
  The Seven Vices, 1559-1560
     
  Others Prints and Related Drawings
     
  Landscape and Seascape Prints
     
 

Prints with Religious Themes

     
  Prints with Figural Compositions excluding Religious Themes
     

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