PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER - THE DUTCH PROVERBS - GOOGLE ART PROJECT
This painting derives from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's original, now in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin, which brings together around a hundred and thirty Flemish proverbs and sayings. Although many of the sayings had been collected in compendia since time immemorial, interest in them had reached a...
The Netherlandish collection that has earned much acclaim includes Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Dutch Proverbs (1559), in which the artist painted realistic scenes illustrating 100 proverbs in a village near the sea. The artist draws the viewer’s attention to spiritual and moral concerns. One ...
The meaning is in a collection of Dutch proverbs,Proverbia communa, published in 1480, which has the following colloquial saying as Proverb 504, “Many a man makes a rod for his own arse”, i.e. many a man does now what will lead later to his own punishment. Bosch expresses the prove...
(een huishouden van Jan Steen). Subtle hints in his paintings seem to suggest that Steen meant to warn the viewer rather than invite him to copy this behaviour. Many of Steen’s paintings bear references to old Dutch proverbs or literature. He often used members of his family as models,...
which developed at a turning point in the history of Dutch painting, is complex and contradictory. It is characterized by a bold widening of the range of themes and objects which were of unusual character and frequently fantastic quality. Bosch combined a highly developed medieval sense of fantasy...
(fig 3), which belongs to a print series,Twelve Proverbs.6The engraving has two inscriptions, one in Dutch that circles the image and another in French which appears on the squatting man’s lower back. Together, they elaborate on the dual nature of flattery. The Dutch text addresses the ...
(een huishouden van Jan Steen). Subtle hints in his paintings seem to suggest that Steen meant to warn the viewer rather than invite him to copy this behaviour. Many of Steen’s paintings bear references to old Dutch proverbs or literature. He often used members of his family as models,...
The fact that the boy looks at the viewer suggests that Steen intended him to introduce a note of irony to the scene, perhaps based on the well-known saying “to pull the wool over someone’s eyes,” the Dutch equivalent of which, iemand knollen voor citroenen verkopen, literally means ...
Bruegel’s earthy sense of humor comes to the fore in this painting as it does in his other works depicting Flemish proverbs. Always ready to point out humanity’s failings, the artist makes him look ridiculous showing us only his pale, thrashing legs. ...