Pieter Bruegel the Elder

In all the works of our Bruegel, there is more than depicted, these words of the contemporary and a friend of the artist - the famous geographer"s scholar Abraham Ortalia - very accurately characterize the original creative manner of the Great Netherlands painter of the XVI century, one of the brightest representatives of the Northern Renaissance. Indeed, in each of his painting - his mystery, and for clear, at first glance, the realistic image multiplies hidden meanings that attach special philosophical depths and the national originality of his works. What can we talk about compositions built on metaphors, symbols, allegoryrs! But not to intimidate an impressionable viewer created their artist. He just searched and brilliantly found the capacious allegorical images corresponding to the emotional state of a rolling soul that experiences the tragic events of the era with its religious struggle and social shocks.
A perfectly illustrated album will get acquainted with the life and creativity of the Great Netherlands painter of the XVI century Peter Breygel