The world of Pieter Bruegel the Elder - BBC Newsnight

If the Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder is an unfamiliar name, his work is instantly recognisable.
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His sublime winter and nativity scenes will be appearing on mantelpieces everywhere in the coming weeks and, for the first time since he died 450 years ago, most of his greatest works are together under one roof in Vienna, for a once-in-lifetime show.
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[@Farcallo]

His attention to detail in such busy paintings is impressive.

[@alflurin]

He's one of my favourite painters.

[@stevedijkhof3109]

ahh you like Dutch painters,good taste

[@rverschueren1659]

Steve Dijkhof : Jesus Christ... He was flamish (belgian) !!!

[@giloises]

@@rverschueren1659 technically he was Dutch at that time, because Belgium didn't exist back then. He was from the Southern Netherlands. He painted very much in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, another (Southern) Dutch painter. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jheronimus_Bosch nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_de_Oude

[@rverschueren1659]

@@giloises : technically ? Dude ethnic and country are not the same even Belgium didn’t exist he was Belgian Flemish end of the story ! And Belgium already existed, it was just a unitary state wich was occupied by the dutch and spanish. So don’t stole our artists, thanks.

[@rverschueren1659]

@@giloises : and when we said « old Netherlands » it means benelux not the current Netherlands. So your « he was dutch » doesn’t work.

[@stevechmilar1215]

Pieter Bruegel was my first inspiration to paint. 15 years after I discovered his work in a purchase from a used book store, he continues to inspire me. What is special to me is the exact way that he invented life without the photo references we have today. True genius.

[@FSVR54]

My favorite painter of all time. He's the absolute greatest.

[@leminhanhkhoa1498]

Absolutely

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

I appreciated this video

[@MrHawkMan777]

I remember seeing a few of his paintings in Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge and before seeing them I had little to no interest in art then all of a sudden I saw them and was blown away. I still dislike most forms of art but it really sparked an interest in me to find more like him. I've since realised that the Dutch/Flemish painters of the late medieval and early modern period were hands down the best artists to ever exist.

[@maxpitchkites]

Watching this to figure out how to pronounce "Bruegel"

[@gustavwengel2776]

You and me both buddy.

[@ZuoWrodzone]

yeah, same

[@chrystianaw8256]

They're not pronouncing it right. In fact they butchered it

[@garbagearchive]

My hero, no one better, I’m sorry to Van Gogh and Raphael.

[@realrembrandt8273]

He is THE BEST!!!!

[@kriddusitsin7462]

Damn! Now I know why I couldn't find the Triumph of Death painting when I visited the Prado museum.

[@Lobototomyeyes]

the musics great as well

[@Lobototomyeyes]

who is it?

[@Lobototomyeyes]

specifically the music over hunters in the snow

[@Willy-nu3oc]

One of the greatest dutch painters in history. Amazing!

[@pieterbruegel5595]

Meer over Bruegels werk vind je op mijn kanaal... kzbin.info/door/wzz_FSBr13p2Ro7AlWfvXA?view_as=subscriber

[@itisonlyme1]

Is he Dutch or Flemish?

[@Willy-nu3oc]

@@itisonlyme1 well, he is Dutch national.

[@BLINKOFFICIEL]

@@Willy-nu3oc : wtf he was flemish

[@Willy-nu3oc]

@@BLINKOFFICIEL Well, since the official record says he was born in Netherlands, he's pretty much dutch. Any other claim is just opinion.

[@araunapalm]

My favorite artist apart from the impressionists.

[@JackT13]

Pretty sure that’s Bosch, not Bruegel 0:35

[@direct_toyou]

Kein Brügelrausschmiss?

[@iSmidgeons]

bröögle

[@justpetitek]

"Breugel" shouldn't be pronaunced this way...

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

Ive heard fro museum employers that many museums secretly display replicas

[@vincentvancraig]

Thats like five hundred year old priceless stuff tho right? Not stuff from the last hundred years like picassos and matisses...just wondering if u knew

[@Claude1Rochon]

But of course ! Art Forgery Masters are some of the busiest and most well paid Artists in the world. They work for Museums.

[@earlsarcades]

Bauers

[@pslogge]

Huge painter. Very silly, inappropriate soundtrack.

[@stevedijkhof3109]

Dutch NOT flemish!!!

[@gaming_met_laurenzo2106]

Steve Dijkhof he’s flemmish

[@vagodms6621]

Flemish, Belgian

[@charleschristensen8556]

He lived in Belgium

[@kristofke69]

Typical Dutch, big mouth empty head.

[@rverschueren1659]

NO, FLEMIIIIISH !!! BRO U HAVE ALREADY VAN GOGH SO STOP STEALING TO FLEMISH PEOPLE !!!!!

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

I made a special trip from the US to Vienna in 2018 for this exhibit. It was wonderful to see so many of these works in one place. I did not fully appreciate how large some of them were until I saw them in person. Amazing!

[@Claude1Rochon]

97 of his paintings in ONE place for a whole season. I AM DEVASTATED. I am just now learning about this exhibition. One has to visit 21 Museums in 17 different Cities to afford this luxury. This will never happen again. teach me a lesson A BIG LESSON. *%$#

[@MostlyLoveOfMusic]

Wow, reminds me just how fantastic his work is

[@wallykimball8829]

There's so magnificent because they're like photographs. Everyone and everything is so real you feel like you could hear what's going on. ❤

[@gouchscowl8601]

Bruegel the elder is my favourite artist, he was genius

[@evenafterall3524]

I wish I was there to see those masterpieces :(

[@moesypittounikos]

There was something in the water in those times!

[@henryotis1209]

The Best

[@tulumize]

2:00 first winter landscape painting in western art

[@carloshenriquebins5113]

The procession to Calvary is one of the greatest works of art

[@ДмитрийГусев-ы9т]

My ten-frame animation loop hundreds of characters of a medieval work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4aumoB6i9pliJY

[@703tomato]

Why are these fragile treasures not enclosed in climate controlled unbreakable glass? They are exposed daily to thousands of people's breath, spit, and potentially an insane vandal's destruction. Same with so many other treasured paintings in museums across the globe.

[@foxo4992]

Why can’t a single person bother to pronounce his name correctly?! It’s not ‘Broigle’. It’s more like ‘broe-chel’ with a ‘ch’ like in ‘loch’.

[@yamoyams6625]

Currently studying him for a school speech

[@You-mr3lo]

..am I the only one who finds it strange that it says 'Flemish' master? He spent a lot of time in Flanders and made his paintings there ... but he was not just a Brabanter ... as in North Brabant .. We dont call Van Gogh a frenchman..do we?

[@r.v.b.4153]

The places where he lived and made his paintings were known as Brabant back in the day (with the exception of Mechelen, which was its own thing). None of them were in Flanders.

[@PJSnodgrass]

thomasknightart.com will be your Breugel

[@chrystianaw8256]

They should at least learn to pronounce his last name properly

[@earlsarcades]

Bauers

[@gouchscowl8601]

I think the art lover in the drawing is him

[@geesus77]

Yeah, this explained nothing. Thanks, BBC.

[@Timitsu]

Lol, it's not pronounced "Broygel" ^^ The "ue" sound (spelled "eu" in modern Dutch) is close to the "u" in the English words "burst", "curse", "urge".

[@Timitsu]

@Ezra Dov Yes I suppose "bruh" comes close! It should be long though. ^^ And the G is quite soft, almost like an H in English. So: [ Bruuuh hull ] What comes even closer is this, if you read it in a very posh British accent: [ Bro hull ]

[@stevedijkhof3109]

another DUTCH master!

[@gaming_met_laurenzo2106]

Steve Dijkhof flemmish

[@vagodms6621]

He is Flemish, Belgian

[@kristofke69]

It’s not because he was believed to be born in Breda that he is a Dutch master, he learned the skills and lived in Belgium most of his live. Just like Van Gogh , born in the Netherlands but he was formed in Antwerp and France, almost no work of him was painted in the Netherlands were his work was not appreciated.

[@stevedijkhof3109]

@@kristofke69 he painted lots in holland you just don't know,and antwerp?he studied there for 3 months only

[@BLINKOFFICIEL]

Steve Dijkhof : bro, he’s flemish (belgian) ! Look no more.

[@fitnesspoint2006]

He must have known some ugly people because the faces are ugly in his painting.

[@Claude1Rochon]

That's a surprising comment if i ever read one ! NO toilets, no toilet paper, no hygiene, Rare soap, no privacy, no fridges, no windows, no medecine, no desinfectant, no bug repelants, no hospitals, no dentists, no drugstore, no money, no exercise, no skin cream, no sterile bandages. Hard work, hard work, hard work. Peasants ate rats, dogs, cats, some boar, some wild chicken, insects...for NO game was available to anyone but Princes and the Rich merchants. They also mostly ate Dark Rye bread, baked often enough from grain that had sat too long in granaries and had gone bad with Lysis of the grain's membrane... serious problem brought on by constant wars and rough weather. This did nothing to embellish anyone believe me. So, no...most people were not pretty. Even the Rich and the Powerful had tons of bad habits and hardly any sense to bathe. So, what you're looking at is the reality of Christian Europe not yet out of the Middle Ages. But this was about to change in a big way. Because the forever castigated Jews living "en marge de la société économique" got seriously sick of it...and were about to show the world, that an ordinary person could make it rich on the back of those corrupt rulers and abusers...by playing the money game better than they. So now, we are totally corrupt with money and credit...but way prettier ! HA !