It is 450 years since the death of the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Brussels, where he spent most of his life, is paying tribute to the master throughout 2019. 
His original – often startlingly surrealist – imagery made him popular with collectors from the very start, and his reputation was boosted by the incredible depictions of peasant life like Children’s Games, The Wedding Dance and The Land of Cockaigne which led to him being called the second Hieronymus Bosch.
After the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna (which owns Hunters in the Snow) the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium have the largest collection of Bruegel’s paintings. These treasures will be exhibited throughout 2019 while guided walks and animations will transport visitors to 16th century Brussels and to the places linked to Bruegel’s life and times.
Throughout 2019 – for further details visit
www.bruegel.brussels
