I have likely required you to shovel chicken Marbella in your mouth while squatting on an antique milking stool like a Bruegel painting peasant, or to squeeze onto a floor poof while sipping a ...

This small round painting, measuring just 17 centimetres in diameter, depicts a peasant woman holding smouldering embers and a cauldron, symbolising an old Dutch proverb about duplicity.

was completed by Bruegel around 1626 and was stolen with another work, Anthony van Dyck’s sketch The Crucifixion, from the National Museum in Gdańsk. It depicts a peasant woman carrying ...

With the help of an art detective and some journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum 50 years ago. "Woman ...

The Great Peasants’ War was premodern Europe’s largest popular rising. Early stirrings in the southwestern corner of what is now Germany in the summer of 1524 grew to affect vast parts of the Holy ...

They might seem an incongruous pair at first, but historically speaking Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder are a natural duo for comparative study. When Bruegel entered the painters’ guild ...