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Children’s Games

Pieter Bruegel, o Velho1560

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Vienna, Áustria

From a bird’s-eye view – the only way Bruegel could legibly fit in the impressive number of figures – the viewer looks down onto a wide square with a transition from an urban to a rural setting at the edges. On the right the view opens on to a long street laid out in central perspective and leading to the city centre, where a church steeple (or town-hall tower) soars into the sky. The battlement-crowned building at the edge of the square towards the city opens into an arcade running parallel to the course of the stream. At the left edge of the painting, an idyllic village appears on the horizon. Children – more than 230 in all – are occupied with 83 different games. The whole city seems to be theirs. Bruegel gives the beholder an encyclopaedic view of the children’s games of his time. The tininess of the figures and scenes forces a viewer seeking to decipher all the games to study the individual parts of the painting slowly and minutely – an entertaining pastime. However, some modern scholars have refused to accept such a humanistic-oriented, “simple” interpretation: the seemingly useless children’s activities have been regarded – probably incorrectly – as a parable forthe senselessness and foolishness of human behaviour. © Cäcilia Bischoff, Masterpieces of the Picture Gallery. A Brief Guide to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2010

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  • Título: Children’s Games
  • Criador: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Vida do criador: ca. 1526/30 - 1569
  • Nacionalidade do criador: flemish
  • Sexo do criador: male
  • Local de nascimento do criador: Breda ?
  • Local da morte do criador: Brussels
  • Data de criação: 1560
  • Dimensões físicas: w1610 x h1180 cm (without frame)
  • Style: Flemish Mannerism
  • Provenance: bought 1594 by Archduke Ernst in Brussels
  • Inventory Number: GG 1017
  • Tipo: paintings
  • Link externo: http://www.khm.at/en/collections/picture-gallery
  • Meio: Oil on Wood
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