Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(1525-1569)

The North Sea as seen from Space

Bruegel, The Tower of Babel, 1563.

Bruegel, Sloth (Desidia). Engraving by Pieter van der Heyden, engraver's monogram lower centre. Inscribed lower left: brueghel. Inuentor.; lower right: H. Cock. excud. cum priuileg. 1558; underneath the allegorical figure: DESIDIA; on lower margin, in Latin: SEGNITIES ROBVR FRANGIT, LONGA OCIA NERVOS (Sluggishness breaks strength, long idleness ruins vigour).

Bruegel, Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1557.

Bruegel, Flemish Kermesse (Peasant Dance), ca. 1567-68.

Bruegel, Wedding Dance, 1566.

Bruegel, Battle between Carnival and Lent, 1559.

Bruegel, Procession to Calvary (Christ carrying the Cross), 1564.