Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(1530 - 1569)
 
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder  was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder


Children's Games
1560
Oil on panel
118 × 161 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum,Vienna

The entire composition is full of children playing a wide variety of games. Over 90 different games that were played by children at the time have been identified. On Wikipedia you can find a list of 80 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Games_(Bruegel)
 

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