The project created for tor the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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NETHERLANDISH PROVERBS 1559
NETHERLANDISH PROVERBS The picture brings together 100 proverbs and places them in surroundings that are as real as the people's behaviour, revealed in terse and apposite form by the wise sayings. The individual scenes are played out side by side, without being directly dependent on each other. A village near the sea provides a spacious stage for the apparently everyday tasks of its inhabitants. The background for all the varied activity is made up of a farmhouse, dilapidated huts, a stone bridge with pillory and tower, the village square at the centre of the activity and a farmstead among cornfields near the wood. In the distance is the open sea, shining in the sun of a late summer's day. This proverb picture is evidence of Bruegel’s intense pre-occupation with the spiritual and moral questions of his time, which give the work its timeless validity.
«TO FISH BEHIND THE NET» To miss an opportunity
«THE FOX AND THE CRANE DINE TOGETHER» Stupidity loves company
«THE PIG IS STABBED THROUGH THE BELLY» A foregone conclusion or what is done can not be undone
«TO SEE BEARS DANCING» To be starving
«TO HOLD AN EEL BY THE TAIL» To undertake a difficult task
«TO FALL THROUGH THE BASKET» To have your deception uncovered
«TO MARRY UNDER THE BROOMSTICK» To live together without marrying
«TO LOOK THROUGH ONE’S FINGERS» To turn a blind eye
«FOOLS GET THE BEST CARDS» Luck can overcome intelligence
«THEY BOTH CRAP THROUGH THE SAME HOLE» They are inseparable comrades
SHARKS EAT SMALLER FISH To be two-faced and to stir up trouble
«WHEN THE CORN DECREASES THE PIG INCREASES» If one person gains then another must lose
«TWO FOOLS UNDER ONE HOOD» Stupidity loves company
«TO SHAVE THE FOOL WITHOUT LATHER» To trick somebody
«TO FRY THE WHOLE HERRING FOR THE SAKE OF THE ROE» To do too much to achieve a little
«NEVER BELIEVE SOMEONE WHO CARRIES FIRE IN ONE HAND AND WATER IN THE OTHER» To be two-faced and to stir up trouble
«TO BE A PILLAR-BITER» To be a religious hypocrite
«TO BE ABLE TO TIE EVEN THE DEVIL TO A PILLOW» Obstinacy overcomes everything
LIST OF PAINTINGS BY PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER
1562 The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562 Mad Meg (Dulle Griet)
1553 Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias
1562 The Triumph of Death
1556 The Adoration of the Kings
1562 Two Monkeys
1557 Parable of the Sower
1562 The Suicide of Saul
1558 Twelve Proverbs
1563 Portrait of an Old Woman
1559
1563
Netherlandish Proverbs
Yawning Man (disputed attribution)
1559 The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
1563 Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
1560 Children’s Games
1563 The Tower of Babel
1560
1564
Battle in the Bay of Naples
The Adoration of the Kings
1560 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Death of the Virgin
1553
1564 The Procession to Calvary
1566 The Census at Bethlehem
1565 The Hunters in the Snow
1566 The Land of Cockaigne
1565 The Return of the Herd
1566 The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist
1565 Haymaking
1566 The Wedding Dance
1565 The Harvesters
1567 Adoration of the Kings in the Snow
1565
1568
The Gloomy Day
The Magpie on the Gallows
1565 Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Parable of the Blind
1568
1565 The Tower of Babel
1568 The Peasant Wedding
1565 Massacre of the Innocents 1565 Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap 1566 The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day
1569 The Storm at Sea
REPRESENTATION OF PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER IN EUROPE Austria / 12 paintings Belgium / 7 paintings Great Britain / 1 painting Hungary / 1 painting Germany / 5 paintings Spain / 2 paintings Italy / 3 paintings The Netherlands / 1 painting France / 1 painting Czech Republic / 1 painting Switzerland / 1 painting
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