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Peter Breughel | Peter Breughel

rochelle-jewel-shapiro's picture
Dec.18.2012
This painting you'll never see on a Christmas Card!
Breughel, the Elder,  known for his bucolic scenes of 16th century Flemish life, drew his subject matter for this painting from the wars that had ravaged his own country in which the Spanish Catholic armies of the Hapsburg empire tried to crush Protestant resistance. The painting came to my...
rochelle-jewel-shapiro's picture
Dec.18.2012
This painting you'll never see on a Christmas Card!
Breughel, the Elder,  known for his bucolic scenes of 16th century Flemish life, drew his subject matter for this painting from the wars that had ravaged his own country in which the Spanish Catholic armies of the Hapsburg empire tried to crush Protestant resistance. The painting came to my...