Dull Gret
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1563
Why it's great
A fierce woman in armor with a sword and a basket of loot marches into the mouth of hell, past burning buildings and monsters. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in about 1563, and Mad Meg is based on a Flemish folk tale.
Where to see it
📍 Museum Mayer van den BerghAntwerp, Belgium
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter born near Breda in about 1525. He lived in Antwerp and Brussels and became famous for crowded paintings of village life, proverbs and landscapes. He died in Brussels in 1569.
