The Gloomy Day
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565
Why it's great
Cold, dark clouds hang over a river and village in early spring, while people prune trees and hunt. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in 1565, as one of six paintings of the months of the year.
Where to see it
📍 Kunsthistorisches MuseumInnere Stadt, Austria
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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.
