Скачать или смотреть Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art History Explained

Showing a snow-covered valley, with leafless trees and frozen lakes, The Hunters in the Snow (1564) is one of Pieter Bruegel’s most accomplished works. It is also one of his most enigmatic and contains an ingenious level of detail. And it’s for these reasons that this remarkable work of art has lasted the test of time. Adopting a bird’s-eye view of mankind, Bruegel forged a new way of looking. In an era when cartographers were mapping out territories near and far, Bruegel surveyed the world and its inhabitants with an artist’s eye. His paintings retain their freshness on account of this topographical vantage point, articulating space as a multiplicity of experiences — which is a very modern way of seeing.

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