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rhea137: The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder Most of yesterday was spent on researching genre painting, and more specifically genre painting of the Low Countries. One of the big mysteries in art history is the painting The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Why would anyone paint a picture of peasants eating drab bread, porridge and soup, served in plates that are carried on a door off its hinges? Why would anyone want to depict this instance of ugliness? In Brueghel’s time, the Roman Catholic Church was the most important patron of the arts. But starting with Bosch and Brueghel, genre paintings became a much more important genre in the Low Countries than it was in the rest of Europe. Many of these paintings are quite charming amusing (think Vermeer’s Milkmaid and The Smoker by Joos van Craesbeeck), not so this Peasant Wedding. Did Brueghel paint this work for himself? The peasants themselves could obviously not afford the painting. Was it commissioned by someone else? That’s the mystery. Ugliness? And what’s more practical than a door? Taking note for my marriage, if any.

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The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Most of yesterday was spent on researching genre painting, and more specifically genre painting of the Low Countries. One of the big mysteries in art history is the painting The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Why would anyone paint a picture of peasants eating drab bread, porridge and soup, served in plates that are carried on a door off its hinges? Why would anyone want to depict this instance of ugliness?

In Brueghel’s time, the Roman Catholic Church was the most important patron of the arts. But starting with Bosch and Brueghel, genre paintings became a much more important genre in the Low Countries than it was in the rest of Europe. Many of these paintings are quite charming amusing (think Vermeer’s Milkmaid and The Smoker by Joos van Craesbeeck), not so this Peasant Wedding. Did Brueghel paint this work for himself? The peasants themselves could obviously not afford the painting. Was it commissioned by someone else? That’s the mystery.


Ugliness? And what’s more practical than a door? Taking note for my marriage, if any.

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