Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter), 1565, oil on wood, 118 x 161 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker & Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

[@jimmillward3505]

My late Mother had a huge print of this painting behind her writing desk in our home so i grew up knowing this image and remember being completely fascinated by it's complexity. The picture stirred all manner of emotions in me and i loved it. it imbues feelings of struggle against the elements but with a hint of the warmth of community and a feeling of "We are going to make it through this together" Only now as an adult and looking at it again i noticed the man in the foreground by the fire, looks as though he is about to throw a table onto the fire, suggesting problems in sourcing wood to burn, it must be bad when your furniture becomes fuel. Also notice the figures in the centre background trying to extinguish a chimney fire, one of them rushing across the bridge with a ladder towards the house with the burning chimney. The two females on the ice in the bottom right near the bridge, one pulling the other across the ice with a rope

[@michaelbruns449]

This stunning panoramic masterpiece radiates stunning and haunting details.

[@mickigoe]

My favourite painting.

[@grumpysorc3744]

The greatest person in the whole History of the Culture ( to me ). With all due respect to many others...

[@lizclegg7556]

I really like this painting. I always feel a kind of angular energy from it.

[@aurora_occidentalis2248]

A masterpiece and a beautiful,. complex, world unto itself. Go to Tarkovski's stunning homage in the 1970 Solaris film adaptation, the levitation scene.

[@mukinmukin6352]

That is the first ever visual depiction of ice hockey being played

[@anniestumpy9918]

I like this painting a lot, thank you!

[@novakattila]

Thanks for this, love this channel

[@ericnicholson870]

Insightful discussion - making art meaningful for today!

[@MagisterHenrik]

Wonderful presentation, thank you.

[@bearlincs]

0:52. That dead animal on the hunter`s back looks more like a fox to me!

[@t.burkeedwards3519]

I agree and so do many others. These two missed the boat on that one. They also missed the rabbit prints in the snow just past the butt-end of the hunter's spear. You need a zoom version on Google or Wikipedia to see that.

[@gaildavies3060]

@@t.burkeedwards3519 or a hare.

[@clauscanddie]

It is a fox on his back, but the footprints are from a rabbit who escaped the hunters.

[@kirschrot77]

Totally agree, it is a fox not rabbit

[@kirschrot77]

Agree with John Ballantine, the animal on the hunter´s shoulder is a fox

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Claudia Seeling Could be.

[@mirandas2013]

Great video

[@n___p_]

Wonderful commentary! I think the rabbit is a fox, you can see its tail hanging down

[@pattivermeersch7348]

Thank you!

[@marian.g.6754]

¡MUCHAS GRACIAS POR MOSTRANOS ESTAS PINTURAS MARAVILLOSAS DE ESTE GRAN GENIO!

[@buakaw]

nice video. I liked it

[@CultureNuggets]

I enjoyed this video too. It was a nice explanation and recap of what I learned about the seasons today in an exhibition at Atomium in Brussels! I've been talking about it so day.

[@Sasha0927]

I think this is my first Netherlandish painting.
Despite my Baroque orientation, genre paintings are a favorite focus of mine too. I love seeing the little slices of real life.
Prosaic = commonplace, unromantic. Good vocab for me.

[@christopherbonis]

Am I just ignorant, or is this a rather unusual style of painting for the 16th century? Looks more to me like something one would see in the late 19th! So much is familiar even to the contemporary eye despite being almost half a millennium old!

[@ericpeck3069]

Love this painting, but a couple things. First, you say this was one of six panels dedicated to the seasons. I just read a book by Wolfgang Stechow and he argues pretty convincingly that it was one of twelve, each devoted to a month, and this is January. Second, I believe it's a fox, not a rabbit, being carried by one of the hunters.

[@yuriklaver4639]

On his back is a fox, not a rabbit - my guess.

[@tylerl6061]

16th Century Europe. These winters were extra cold and the summers were sometimes very warm.

[@internetsurvivor]

"I've been hiding in snow. I've been treading on ghosts."

[@AbitibiMac]

I recently purchased a print of this painting and it looks very old. I found an embossed Anton Schroll and Co. Vienna. I was curious when it was printed and if it`s of any value. Thanks.

[@marktorr5380]

during those years mini iceage!!!!

[@squamish4244]

The painting is also seen as corroborative evidence of the Little Ice Age, which at this point was at its peak and northern European winters were harsh.

[@TheJohnRowley]

i enjoyed this, thank you. It's a shame that your reference to Italian painting shows a painting made a good 50 years before the painting you are discussing, otherwise I really liked the idea of cutting to show what other people where up to in europe painting at that time

[@tubeyhamster]

Where was this recorded? In an atrium?

[@smarthistory-art-history]

This was recorded several years ago during a temporary exhibition at the KHM that focused on images of winter.

[@Superking.Menthol]

Is there a castle in this picture?

[@michaeltraub3614]

Very penetrating analysis

[@svalbard01]

Are those dimensions correct? It's over 16 meters wide??

[@nondescript2892]

no of course not

[@BrandonKeer]

The MIRROR By Andrei Tarkovsky scene similar to this

[@olenadiffenbachia106]

He was inspired by Breugel's painting, art historians all agree with that.

[@ferenckovacs2267]

And in the Solaris

[@teamcrumb]

he's not finding meaning. he's abiding with people and the act of painting.

[@aspenx-qc3rm]

hello apah students

[@fishbuckle5743]

Tipped triangle

[@pinellafranich6007]

Curling

[@pinellafranich6007]

@@eliseereclus3475 winter sport, in the pic.

[@rey.del.guac.7]

OH JAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ANTWERPEN