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When Painters Go Ice Skating

19 December 2022

Although the Dutch have been ice skating since the thirteenth century, it was not until the sixteenth century that ice skaters would regularly appear in paintings, courtesy of the Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel the Elder and... a climatic phenomenon. Since then, countless artists have ventured out on

Dionysus on the River Scheldt: ‘Wild Woman’ by Jeroen Olyslaegers

16 February 2022

In his second historical fiction novel, Jeroen Olyslaegers brings to life the city of Antwerp before, during and after 1566, the year of the Iconoclastic Fury. His lyrical and at once vernacular language provides a rich story about friendship, solidarity, faith and betrayal.

Boijmans Acquires 16th-Century Book of Prints Filled With Fantastical Beings

12 May 2021

A 16th-century book with 120 woodcut prints, Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel, has been added to the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. This fantastical work presents a catwalk of freaks: strange, hybrid beings that seem to have walked straight out of the grotesque works b

The Strange Art of Pieter Bruegel

22 June 2020

Walking through Brussels, sooner or later you will come across Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his enigmatic art. Derek Blyth would join you in a minute.

Museum Mayer van den Bergh: Home of Bruegel’s ‘Mad Meg’ and Other Masterpieces

16 May 2019

Admiring Flemish masters such as Bruegel, outside the big museums, in a domestic setting, is that possible? The answer is yes. Take for example Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), one of the best-known masterpieces by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. After a thorough restoration the painting is now back ‘home’ in A

Curators of Major Bruegel Exhibition in Vienna Awarded

12 April 2019

The ART Curator Prize for the best exhibition of 2018 in Austria goes to the curators of the world's first major monographic exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525/30 - 1569) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. The prize of the art magazine ART was awarded for the fourth time at the

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