The Misanthrope
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1568
Why it's great
An old man in black walks along, scowling, while a thief cuts his purse from behind him, and a tiny man sits in a glass ball. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in 1568, and the Latin text says that because the world is faithless, I go in mourning.
Where to see it
📍 Museo di CapodimonteNaples, Italy
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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.
