Netherlandish Proverbs
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1559
Why it's great
Dozens of people in a village act out proverbs: one man bangs his head on a wall, another throws money into a river, and a man tries to cut something with a knife on a roof. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted this in 1559, and over a hundred sayings are hidden in it.
Where to see it
📍 Gemäldegalerie BerlinBezirk Mitte, Germany
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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.
