The Triumph of Death
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1560
Why it's great
Skeleton armies attack the living in a burnt, bare landscape, with graves, wheels and ships in the distance. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in about 1560, and no one escapes, not kings, soldiers or lovers.
Where to see it
📍 Museo del PradoMadrid, Spain
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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.
