In 1559 Bruegel painted one of his most exquisite works, the richly detailed and mesmerising Netherlandish Proverbs, which depicts literal visual representations of more than 90 Dutch sayings.

104.1 x 148.9 cm. (41 x 58.6 in.) ...

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 ...

This is the whole view of "Proverbs of Nederland". It seems just like a picture, but the proverb is hidden everywhere. So, one example of a proverbial in the picture is from the following. First of ...

Pieter Bruegel began his career making engravings of proverbs for book publishers, when these proved popular he decided to go into business for himself and paint. Netherlandish Proverbs, painted in ...

Hidden image puzzles aren't a recent invention. In 1559, a Dutch artist named Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced an oil painting featuring visualizations of over 100 common proverbs—and trying to spot ...

Though hardly anything is known about Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a great deal is known because of him. The demons and louts who crowd the pages of the newly published Fantasy of Pieter Brueghel* ...

118.5 x 170.5 cm. (46.7 x 67.1 in.) ...

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 ...