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01/18/2010

Musée des Beaux Arts: Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Please study these two 14th century paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder in preparation for class on January 20, 2010.

Brueghel Census at Bethlehem  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Census at Bethlehem, 1566

 

Brueghel Fall of Icarus 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Landscape with Fall of Icarus, 1558

 

You might also like to listen to W. H. Auden reading his 1940 poem, Musée des Beaux Arts, here.

 

—Brian T. Maurer

 

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