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The Procession to Calvary Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1564
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The Procession to Calvary

Pieter Brueghel the Elder Β· 1564

Why it's great

Christ stumbles, carrying the cross, among a huge crowd on the way up a hill, and he is hard to spot at first. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in 1564, and it is full of tiny stories.

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About the artist

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

1525–1569 Β· born in Breda Β· died in Brussels

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.

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