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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

March 2024

  • Woodland Scene, c1635–40 by Peter Paul Rubens. detail

    Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings review – vital, intimate, exceptionally intense

  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526–69) The Temptation of St Anthony, c. 1556

    Bruegel to Rubens review – strange and humble Flemish art with almost edible detail

December 2022

  • Sirens … Sophie von Hellermann & Anne Ryan.

    Are you bored yet?
    Are you bored yet? Five art shows to be dazzled by over the Christmas season

    From Lucian Freud to Turner and the mysteries of ancient Egypt, here are some of the best exhibitions across the country right now

February 2022

  • Princess Mononoke.

    Cultural prescription
    A rainforest cries: music, art, books and more to help you deal with climate anxiety

    From Noname’s new single to Bruegel’s vision of a lost world, our critics offer up culture for processing the impending crisis

December 2021

  • ‘Manic details’ … The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

    From Bruegel’s boozers to Hirst’s horrific ashtray: what are the wildest parties in art?

    Summon some Flemish yokels. Send for some Venetian aristocrats. Then open the ale and party to the sound of bagpipes … if you can’t get to a Christmas bash this year, come to art’s best knees-ups instead

August 2021

  • Part of the centre of Antwerp

    The Guardian view on Antwerp: lessons from a crossroads community

    Editorial: British ties with a historic European city deserve to be more widely explored

March 2020

  • Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - by Pieter Bruegel, 1560's<br>DHWKCK Landscape with the Fall of Icarus - by Pieter Bruegel, 1560's

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Hunting down the 42 paintings of Pieter Bruegel - books podcast

    On this week’s show we talk to Toby Ferris about his pursuit of the Dutch master and look at how the literary world is dealing with the pandemic

December 2018

  • Rodin and the art of ancient Greece Thursday 26 April – Sunday 29 July 2018 Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery British Museum Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), The Age of Bronze, 1877. Bronze. Sandcast before 1916 © Musée Rodin

    Best culture 2018
    Jonathan Jones's top 10 art shows of 2018

    Rodin’s wild works electrified the art of ancient Greece, Bruegel gave ice-skating an apocalyptic undertow and the Summer Exhibition got a stunning makeover from Grayson Perry

October 2018

  • Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30 Breugel or Antwerp? – 1569 Brussels) Children’s Games 1560, oak panel, 118 × 161 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery

    Bruegel review – beer, pancakes, and the limitless genius of Bruegel

    With its vibrant vistas of comedy and horror, this astonishing exhibition reveals how the 16th-century Flemish master created art that was simply more human and generous than anyone else’s

February 2017

  • Eduardo Paolozzi Real Gold (from the Bunk! portfolio) 1972 Screenprint 32.5 x 24.3 cm Courtesy goldmarkart.com © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, licensed by DACS

    Five of the best… new art shows
    Eduardo Paolozzi and Nathan Coley: this week's best UK exhibitions

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Ignore the art market – there is only one Bruegel that matters

    Jonathan Jones
  • Kirkcarrion a Bronze Age burial site, marked by a group of pines within a circular wall

    Country diary
    Layby in the landscape, buffeted by history

  • Everyday symbolism … detail from Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559).

    Bosch and Bruegel review – more gripping than a thriller

November 2016

  • Detail of Wedding Dance in the Open Air

    Brueghel's rediscovered wedding dancers to go on show in Bath

    Celebration of artistic dynasty at Holburne Museum will include piece newly attributed to Pieter Brueghel the Younger

October 2016

  • Jim Broadbent

    Jim Broadbent writes graphic novel inspired by Bruegel

    Dull Margaret, a darkly humorous tale illustrated by the artist DIX, is tipped to be a hot property at the Frankfurt book fair

February 2016

  • Bruegel the Elder - Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, from Bruegel in Black and White: Three Grisailles Reunited, Courtauld Gallery.

    Bruegel in Black and White review – a brief but harrowing encounter

    While the best-loved paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder overflow with life, there are no cakes and ale in these images drawn from his darker side

March 2015

  • The Duke of Burgundy

    Wings of desire: how butterflies have captivated artists

    From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them

December 2014

  • Winter Light by Caspar David Friedrich

    The 15 artworks that define Christmas – in pictures

    Peasants trudging through snow, ice-skaters in the street and the baby Jesus glowing and golden in the manger … how the greatest painters have captured the majesty of the season

October 2014

  • Heads of Torture Victims, study for The Raft of the Medusa (oil on canvas) by Theodore Gericault, (1791-1824).

    Happy Halloween: the world's scariest artworks – in pictures

    From bloody severed heads to nightmare visions of hell, via gruesome gargoyles, creepy shrouded lovers and a fresco of death riding a skeleton horse, here’s our pick of the most unsettling pieces of art ever produced. Prepare to be spooked …

August 2014

  • Untroubled bliss … Édouard Manet – Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863)

    Jonathan Jones on art
    The top 10 picnics in art

    Jonathan Jones: From scandalous scenes in the French countryside to Rubens' plea for the pleasures of peace, here are the finest al fresco dining paintings in history

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