Last month, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna opened “Bruegel,” billing it in their curatorial statement as “an absolutely unique event, and a ‘must-see’ for every art lover.” Museums are ...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder transformed observations of daily existence into complex visual parables. As a new exhibition of his work opens in Vienna, Kelly Grovier explores the elusive symbolism of one ...

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is mounting the largest ever exhibition devoted to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, uniting more than three-quarters of the artist’s surviving paintings and presenting ...

The monographic exhibition on Pieter Bruegel at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna that closed earlier this year had an unprecedented number of visitors—more than 400,000—and will remain ...

Depicting, among other things, Christ’s procession to the cross, Spanish soldiers presiding over an execution in sixteenth-century Flanders and a mysterious mill perched atop a hollow cliff, Pieter ...

With Pieter Bruegel, what you see is pretty much what you get. Or that, certainly, has been a large measure of the Flemish painter’s appeal. Rather than the abstruse allegories, delicate nudes and ...

The Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) is one of the most admired painters in the history of Western art. His ravishing and poignant "Hunters in the Snow" is one of the world’s ...

Look carefully and you'll find strange creatures hiding around the small church of Notre-Dame de la Chapelle, in Brussels. A tiny, wild-eyed and red-haired angel dangles above a crucifix, brandishing ...

THE MUSIC is playing and the ale flowing freely as guests throng into a barn. Two cooks bring soup to a dining table crowded with men, women, dogs and children. It is a wedding, but the bride’s calm ...