ARTH 4007 Pieter Bruegel (Brueghel) the Elder - Part 1

Art Historian Dr. Vida Hull
Northern Renaissance

[alainmaitre]

At minute 50:20 there is the painting "Return of the hunters" . That painting is in Vienna (Austria), museum . A photo-shot of that painting is also to be seen in the beginning of the director Lars von Trier film "Melancholia" , interesting film . Rent the dvd . I have the dvd at home ... I just came from the Brussels museum, a Bruegel paintings collection, great . I bought the dvd film about Bruegel, actors Rutger Hauer and Charlotte Rampling in that film . I will look at it this evening, somewhere in Flanders (Belgium) ...

[AkameTogashiSarminMimi]

I am about to take my AP Art History exam in next month. People say that it's college exam and so it's hard. And thank you so much for creating such a nice video. It helped me a lot through my study about Brueghel's art. I couldn't understand what my teacher tried to say about this lesson but when I started to watch this video, it helped me a lot to understand that subject. Like really it is well explained. I believe that Brueghel has lot of more information than High Renascences.
Now I really think that I will be able to pass that exam with the point of 4.

[herwig]

I live in the same street where Brueghel lived, Hoogstraat, Brussels.  :-)

[andresfeliph]

thak you very mucho DR. Vida.
Me encanto tú clase un beso y un abrazo gigante desde Bucaramanga, Colombia.
I loved your class. really thanks. :)

[wilava]

Do we know what Dutch dialect he spoke? As this would help place his birth place in North Brabant, Netherland? My father came from a village called Breugel, they speak the Meierij dialect, mostly only the elderly speak it now.
Also, the idea that Breughel was Flemish/Belgium is uncertain, as was not this area once part of Netherlands before the revolt? Therefore he is from the Netherlands.

[alciradubon]

Me encantan estos temas como quisiera subtitulos en español para entender mejor, pues solo con ver las pinturas voy comprendiendo desde ya gracias

[TobyIKanoby]

As far as I know, what here is called "knucklebones" is not gambling, I wouldn't know how to gamble with that game, it doesn't make sense.

[spinoz]

"Bruegel NOT a peasant" Well I'll be damn if someone even dares to think him as lower class member...

These academic types (usually from upper-middle class) are so blind about their own predjudice toward lower classes. Even if the only historical data claims Bruegel to be a peasent of origins, they want to deny it, because... yes, why? True, he became like that "upstard crow" (Shakespeare's sin according to some upper class writer history has mercifully forgotten) an upper middle class burgher, with money, status and education. But for me it is clear that his *background* was indeed in peasant class. This we can clearly see from his image of the peasant: no sentimentalism, no moral superiority, no disgust (especially when they are lazy: no upper class artist could paint The Land of Cockaigne). There is no outsider's view whatsoever, but compassioned and realistic feeling that only an artist of peasant background could produce. Or more precicely, an in-betweener: between low brow and middle high brow. Best artist are always some sort of in-betweeners.

Bruegel was probably a child prodigy who had talent and passion for drawing, and someone must have suggest his parents to let him to be an apprentice to some local master, then ever bigger one, and finally under the wings of Pieter Coecke van Aelst. At that time Dutch were nuts about visual art and constantly hungry for new talents (a new Bosch!), and that was a peasan's ticket to a better life. (I bet Bruegel hated farm labor!) Talent is very rare, so even if one emerges from lower clasess - God forbid! - beggars can't be chosers.

[arttreks]

What in the HELL are you ranting about women - we don’t need your input we can see the painting - YOU ARE DISRUPTING OUR VIEW AND CONCENTRATION OF THE WORKS -