Nov 20, 2024
The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Allegory of the Peace in the Low Countries
Artist: Pieter Claeissens the Younger (Flemish, 1535-1623)
Date: 1577
Medium: Oil painting
Collection: Groeningemuseum Museum, Bruges, Belgium
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Archduchess Isabel Clara Eugenia (1566-1633). By Edmond Lechevallier Chevignard.
Spa, Belgium (c. 1895), photochrom print. Library of Congress.
Can we have a limited series about Margaret of Austria? She’s so interesting! Betrothed to the King of France, she was dumped by him in favor of her would-be stepmother. Then she was engaged to the Prince of Asturias, but he died, and afterward, she married the Duke of Savoy, who passed away three years later. After that, she became regent and governor of the Low Countries for her nephew, raising him and her nieces.
Get my girl her moment!
A Pavise bearing the arms of the Duke of Burgundy,
Height: 41.3 in/105 cm
Width: 23.8 in/60.4 cm
Depth: 5.6 in/14.2 cm
Thickness: 0.79 in/2 cm
Low Countries, 1474-1475, housed at the Rijksmuseum.