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The Hunters in the Snow | Pieter Bruegel the Elder | 1565 36" x 24" / Framed Canvas
Hunters in the Snow is a painting created by Pieter Brueghel the Elder almost 500 years ago. Yet even today, art historians remain astonished that an image like this was painted so long ago.
In this scene, we see three hunters returning to the village after a long day of hunting. In the distance, dozens and dozens of people are enjoying winter sports, and on the far left, a family seems to be struggling against the wind to light a fire.
What does all of this mean? What message might be hidden in this painting?
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0:00 Introduction
1:35 The Landscape
2:00 The Sign of Saint Hubert
3:16 The Hunters
4:43 The Crows
5:27 The Frozen Lake
6:29 The Genre of Pieter Brueghel
7:33 Reflection
This video was largely based on the research and analysis originally published by art
writer Christopher P. Jones: / why-this-painting-still-looks-fresh-500-ye...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOqxbp8DzLo&t=26s
How this innocent painting hides a dangerous reality
Alla Prima
7 months ago #arthistory #history #art
At first glance, this painting might seem like an innocent winter scene. But in typical Pieter Bruegel the Elder fashion, this painting is full of hidden symbols. Here’s what I found.
I always thought this painting represented a duality, that winter is harsh but people struggle through and even find joy amidst the gloom.
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Great interpretation of those hunters! I wouldn't have even thought about that! By the way, that is not a house fire in the background, it is a chimney fire, a very common occurrence when the soot accumulating inside the chimney catches fire. It won't burn the house down but it will fill it with heavy smoke. I speak from personal experience! As children we had a traditional house similar to this in Wicklow, Ireland, and one Christmas the chimney went on fire. It was very dramatic. They can be put out very easily. The people on the ladder will use some water and then block the airflow from the top while people inside the house will put a large board to cover the very large fireplace,, thereby closing off the air supply and instantly stopping the fire. These people of that era were likely experts in doing this. My grandparents knew exactly what to do too. This painting has unexpectedly brought back a distant childhood memory! Thank you!!
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MY OVERALL IMPRESSION of this painting is that the hunters, trudging toward the town far below are bringing bad news to the happy villagers, that the birds circling overhead are harbingers of hard times to come and that survival would be precarious. It has a feeling of gloom.;
Interesting analysis. Thanks for the video.
Just as a point of fact, what was described as a "house fire" is a chimney fire and occurs when creosote build-up in the chimney flue ignites. When this happens air from the house rushes into the chimney flue faster and faster, super heating the fire, and a loud roar is produced that's unnerving. Anyone who's heard the sound of a chimney fire probably won't forget it.
3:35 that's a soot fire in the chimney.
Anyone interested in Bruegel could do worse than reading Headlong by Michael Frayn. It’s about a writer who is invited to a country estate for dinner whereupon he thinks a painting he sees on the wall is one of Bruegel’s Months series which was previously though lost. What ensues is a farcical attempt to procure this painting surreptitiously in order to verify its authenticity. The narrator segues occasionally for the benefit of the reader into the life and works of Bruegel. I literally wasn’t able to put the book down.
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Did anybody else even notice the poor guy laying face down on the ice?
I'm doubtful the hunters were after deer. That assumption seems to arise from associations with St Hubert rather than from what Bruegel actually painted. In the Brueghel/Rubens image you cite (Prado), the saint carries a short sword (a hanger) appropriate for despatching a deer held by hounds. By contrast, the hunters in Hunters in the Snow have neither the right dogs nor the right weapons for deer. Their dogs are light coursing types suited to hare or fox, not to restraining a stag, and the long, narrow spears they carry are not specialised hunting weapons but the multipurpose staff-spears used by rural hunters in winter — part walking-stick, part prod, a token of the hunt, and at best a minimal safeguard against a boar. Their very inadequacy is the point: Bruegel shows a poorly equipped, subsistence-level winter hunt, not a stag-hunt in the heroic or Hubertine mould.
More generally, the Western artistic and literary tradition offers an immensely rich repertoire of signs and referents. The interpretative challenge is to identify which of these are genuinely activated within a particular work and which are merely available possibilities — in other words, to distinguish signal from semiotic noise. Bruegel knows this, and he duly tests our discernment.
Don’t think that bird is a magpie
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To w;a;nie charakteryzuje wielk;/prawdziw; sztuk;. Dzie;o jest wielowymiarowe. Ka;dy jego fragment daje do my;lenia i domaga si; odczytania intencji mistrza. To gra intelektualna pe;na zagadek i tajemnic do rozszyfrowania. Arcydzie;o pod ka;dym wzgl;dem.
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My grandmother was huge into fox hunting with hounds. She had this picture on her wall. Those are fox hounds not deer hounds.
EDIT: Also they aren't greyhounds. Greyhounds don't do well in the snow. They are lurchers, half sight hound/half herder.
I won an art prize when I was 12 and I chose a book about Bruegel which I still have. I’ve taken it out to look at whilst listening to your commentary and it’s so interesting. I knew about Bruegel’s symbolism but I’d never even noticed the bird trap or the chimney fire. Thanks so much, so very interesting and yes, please analyse another Bruegel painting
- I have my Bruegel book ready!
There is a frozen water-mill wheel in the bottom right corner (an undershot mill race from the look of it). This also symbolises the harsh shortages of winter, the people wouldn't have been able to mill grain into flour.
I used this painting during my teaching career as a promp for individual writing. The main focus for the students came from the feeling that the village was enclosed, trapped by the sharp mountains, threatened by winter and the fight for survival, the students saw an imminent danger, unseen but inevitable.
I first saw this painting many, many years ago in the zero-gravity scene in Tarkovsky's film "Solaris," and fell in love with it forever. A reproduction of it hangs before me in my office as I write this commentary.
It exudes a certain tense balance and anxious anticipation. This painting is all the more relevant in our troubled times.
Gotta say, the comments are as informative as the video. I commend everyone!
You know, I've seen this painting a million times and I never would have thought of any of this
A replica was in my grand mother's living room as a kid I was fascinated by the tiny skaters and curling players! First time I hear such an interesting analysis
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The part of the painting that I find most interesting is the perfect semi-circle on the side of a building in the lower right corner. If you look at the rest of the painting, everything else is straight lines and sharp edges. The houses and mountains look jagged and harsh. But down there hidden away is a perfectly rounded archway or portal into what looks like an ice cave. It looks like a portal to somewhere dark, and the failed hunters to me are walking directly towards it.
You can see this painting on display in Vienna's world-famous Kunsthistorisches Musem (Museum of Art History), among thousands of other important and fascinating works of art.
I like the way the magpie at first looks like a far off dragon who might have started that house fire.
8:10 Regarding the symbology risks, while we today are able to digitally zoom in and see every minute detail, I wonder about Bruegel’s contemporary exhibition and mounting of the 46x64 painting, and who, being aware of the possible interpretations, would have been able to see said details.
Great analysis of the hidden symbols. What gets me is how this 1565 painting ended up floating on a space station Tarkovsky put it in Solaris as the ultimate symbol of human nostalgia for Earth, with the camera slowly panning across it for nearly two minutes while Bach plays in the background. A scene of Flemish peasants becoming the icon of what it means to be human when you're millions of miles from home. Bruegel would have loved the irony.
It really reminds me of Vivaldi's Winter, It does show the contrast between today and back then of how we think of winter. A winter song now is about Christmas and happiness, back then it was the worst time in the year, de ath from the cold, lack of food etc. This captures that completely. The creeping nature, the way it makes you feel being hemorrhaged in. The inevitable end for many people in this season.
Interesting dissection.Thanks for your Ideas. Having lived off the land for a few decades, raised our family in the forest, hunted and fished for food, I have always been sympathetic with this painting's atmosphere. 1) That is a chimney fire in the distance, a not uncommon thing when burning wood. (Creosote inevitably builds up and needs to be cleaned out, but although unfortunate, not necessarily life threatening...had several ourselves. 2) The hunters and dogs returning tired and disappointed is not uncommon. 3) We have erected small squirrel traps to catch such, not necessarily birds. A person inside watched until a small animal went under the box and then pulled the cord on the stick holding it up allowing it to fall and trap the animal inside...maybe a bird, but doubtfully. The hanging sign might be symbolic, and crows are always birds that arouse caution. They often told us where game could be found, as they feasted on the gut piles. I wonder what is written on the sign? From this small picture the tracks running under the hunters look like a pair repeated, not the "t" shaped 4 tracks of a rabbit....maybe something like a bird hopping? Could show the hind foot prints of a rabbit scurrying away from the path of the dogs....sort of tongue in cheek joke about the dog's failure.
I thought I waa familiar with the artist but I didnt realise there was so much going in in this one.
Fascinating to hear this has an innocent reputation. It has always felt oddly sinister to my eye, if anything this softened my opinion of his depiction lol
I LOVED this! What a wonderful video. I fell in love with Hunters in the Snow when I was 9 years old when I made a decoupage using a clipping of it from a magazine and wrote a little 4th grade report about the painting and artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Now, at age 67, I still consider it my very favorite painting. Over the years I have learned quite a few things about it (like the little ice age bit and the fact it has a complex mixture of happy and unhappy elements) but your video expanded my knowledge probably tenfold. Moreover, theology studies and the reformation constitute a huge part of my pleasure reading these days. Thanks for your beautiful explanation that hit all the right notes for me. You have made my day!
Yes! I am interested in more painting analyses like this one. The number of people who ;;this video is double the number of people who have subscribed so far, and it shows you are on the right track. This video was fascinating. What is also interesting is the number of comments that added to or clarified what you shared. Really interesting, all of it. Thank you!
the hunters are not carrying those spears for deer, those are hog spears
they would have been hunting boar, peasants were not allowed to hunt deer
The viewing & your narration are an eye opener & a treat.
The house isn't burning, yet. It's a chimney fire.
That happens sometimes if the chimney isn't swept out from time to time.
Still dangerous.
Excellent analysis! Thank you so much. I'll share it with my students.
YES!!!! Go into detail in as many paintings as possible. I have been studying art and the symbolisms that go into them for over 40 years. The painters of the Primitives, the Flemish schools, and other later art schools had genius painters who put 1000s of pieces of information into their work. I am still studying this aspect. This video was helpful.
A fascinating insight madam! I was feeling so smug with myself at recognising the style of the artist that in England (at least) we pronounce as Broygul. This represents one of the very few times the English speakers paid enough respect to honour the pronunciation of host languages. In my lifetime (even!) I have heard BBC radio announcers refer to Marseille and Lyon as “Ma sails” and “Lions”. Anyway thank you so much for such a an amazing further education into an artist I had always seen as fascinating. In England an artist called Hogarth has entered the Lexicon of defining busy, sometimes objectionable scenes with a political or humanitarian subtext. More recently (well, in my 73 years) that baton was picked up by a gentleman who produced a cartoon in the Daily Express. Any scene of crowded mayhem and humour whether actual or graphic would for my generation be referred to as “Looking like a Giles Cartoon”. Very well done again, you’ve attracted a lapsed art lover back into a wonderful world!
I was JUST looking at this painting in a book the other day, but it did not refer to Bruegel’s clues whatsoever. This was a great breakdown of the piece and history.
yes please more analysis of more paintings!!
I never took the time to study this painting this close! Great video!
Thanks, this was lots of fun! And yeah, the mountains in the painting, while gorgeous and ominous, are clearly not in Flanders, whose highest elevation point is under 300m... Perhaps Bruegel included them to obfuscate the location and add plausible deniability, in case anyone got suspicious about his message and started to ask questions. Sorta like Ancient Greek drama, where the performers would introduce a play as having happened "a long time ago" somewhere "far, far away" and then immediately depict the scandals and conflicts of the day.
I have lived in Flanders my whole life, never knew we had mountain peaks.
9:55 Was looking at the mountains the entire video thinking that place is flat as hell
I love this painting and always will. You did a good job. Thank you.
Brilliant! I translate for the Rijksmuseum and other Dutch museums : I found this full of fascinating insights: many thanks ;
A critical journey through the series of paintings would be great. thanks for your insights, and bring another school day to this retired gent. cheers
Man I thought this was from a big channel or something ; nice work
In art history class we certainly didn't get all this art history!! What a great analysis of this amazing painting!! I would definitely like to learn more about Bruegel's other paintings in this series. And any other paintings you are interested in featuring :)
A painting I’ve known all my life. But never knew any of this. Thanks for posting.
Your analysis is much appreciated, thank you
Fun look at a fascinating painting I have always enjoyed. Thank you and keep going!
A flag shown with horizontal red, yellow, and white bands in the town center painting is of what is now Belgium. And is the flag of when it was a Spanish possession. Spears were not used to hunt deer, but wild boar. Bows and arrows would have been used instead . Winter at that time especially at that time in history would have been harsh . With little food being available .
great job with your analysis! grew up with this painting on the wall !
As a boy growing up in england I had to salute magpies or it would be bad luck.
I love the background forests they look mysterious and really pull your eyes in.
This analysis was very interesting! I certainly would never have known to look for the symbolism this painting contains. Please do more of this type of commentary!
Well done! I loved this! And yes. Please do the others! I always found Bruegel intriguing, but this was a wonderful eye-opener! Thank you
10/10. Thank you, I look forward to more commentary. That was enlightening.
I had to come back to watch it again. Great job
Really good video. Thank you so much for enlightening us. I could have stared at this for hours enjoying the details without realizing any of the context or symbolism. Thank you for making clear what I'm sure the artist worked hard to include.
9:40 glad you covered that, I was going to ask because Flanders is almost paper flat.
My favourite painting. Every time I’m in Vienna I go loose myself in it for a few moments. Your analysis is sound. It’s great that this piece gets attention. It deserves it.
Thanks for the final point, i was wondering about the mountain too. Please do other paintings in the series.
Yes! Yes! I ;it! Please do an episode on each of the other ones - including the lost painting ;!
Your explanation is fabulous and I would not have seen any of that. I'm thinking that smack dab in the Little Ice Age the water was unlikely to be thin enough to crack. Also, I think the mountain adds a lot to the composition by making the scene more centered in the middle of the painting.
I wish we could walk into his paintings. So beautiful…
I have a print of WHIS on my living room wall, but the detail of the chimney fire is small; I had to look w/ a magnifier to make it out. YIKES!
Terrific, in-depth analysis. I will pay more attention to Bruegel's work.
Quite the informative and inspiring analysis, well done. Made me search for more imagery by the artist, and, yes: please continue your series with the other paintings, I am subscribing.
The housefire is more likely a chimney fire. Under the right circumstances, the soot and tar in the chimney can catch fire and damage the chimney or set the rest of the house alight.
Thanks for a great analysis of a complex painting and Bruegel’s interpretation of his own times.
but then, sometimes a picture is just a picture.
This was most interesting, thank you for your commentary.
Your video was such a pleasant surprise. I really enjoyed it!
My grandmother taught me not to just LOOK at a painting but to SEE it ! This is very interesting.
It's a magnificent painting even without the hidden messages.
The perspective makes it look like the hunters are about to walk off a cliff.
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@wysiwyg2489
7 months ago
Relative to the St. Hubert sign. Bruegel the Elder was catholic but frequently critized the church on his painting. The sign is half hanging to portrait the fragility of icons or idols in the up and coming Protestantism coming from the Netherlands. I suspect he was very familiar with the works of Hieronymus Bosch, which he reflected thru his body of work, and served as bridge between Bosch and Jan Steen. BTW, at 0:45 there is hunter kneeling and firing his gun at some birds, across the road right above the pond (right side).
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@nedmeyer698
6 months ago
Yes,please do a series on these interesting works. Your narrative is quite good.
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@viggomedeiros5790
7 months ago
Pls do a video on the others!! this video was great, subbing
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@Mr38thstreet
7 months ago
This has been a favorite painting of mine for years. It was such a treat hearing your explanations of the goings on that I never would have figured out for myself! Please do more of these, I can't wait.
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@josephtaylor6285
7 months ago
I’ve always liked this painting but never got to see it this deeply explained. Wonderful
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@sunfish7021
7 months ago
That was very interesting. Thank you. ;
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@Weerchris
7 months ago
Great information. There’s one problem though with the location because northern Flanders doesn’t have any mountains.
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@ianmarlow6350
7 months ago
Very enjoyable and enlightening - Thank you
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@TawnieH71
7 months ago
0:18 it never looked innocent in the first place
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@StoneGnomeRambles
7 months ago
The Devil’s in the Detail?
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@kumaranvij
7 months ago (edited)
I read that crows and ravens symbolized death and were thought of as bad omens because when they saw gallows being built or ropes being hung from trees, they were smart and knew what was coming, having good memories. They knew there would soon be swinging bodies with eyes to peck at. People, not being as smart, didn't realize that the crows were there because they associated gallows with a meal - they thought they were somehow bringers of death. They would even hate and fear them, out of superstition.
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@ArtMartindale-k5c
7 months ago (edited)
Entertaining and informative video. I also very much appreciated the slide show advance sounds included.
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@lucasyoung6256
7 months ago
Please do the other paintings in the series!
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@MosheFeder
7 months ago
I'm subscribing. I really appreciated your explanation of this very familiar work and hope you will also cover the other surviving works in its series. Do we know anything about the missing painting?
You might enjoy a novel I helped to edit over twenty years ago, “As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel" by Rudy Rucker, which imagines the life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It got a starred review in Booklist. I found Rudy's version of Bruegel lively, vivid, and convincing.
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@markkens9
7 months ago (edited)
A wonderful watercolor, filled with little hints of decay and neglect
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@JS-xs5hq
7 months ago
Yes, we would much appreciate your interpretations on the remaining paintings in this series, and other art as well. Thank you
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@richardshiggins704
7 months ago
Nicely explained . Please do interpret the other seasons .
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@DaughterofMotherEarth
7 months ago
Yes please!
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@MrDominickpal
7 months ago
yes, please, do more videos about his other seasons!
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@kathycarlson7947
7 months ago
Brilliant. I'd love more
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@franckorphanos2998
7 months ago
Peasant was not a derogatory term .
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@MrNektarios1973
7 months ago
Yes pls analyse the other paintings
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@lauriebernard9342
7 months ago
Very interesting! Yes, I would love hear your analysis of the other paintings
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@Weirdkauz
7 months ago
3:05 why do you draw a line that goes nowhere near where the roofline runs?
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@spottedmahn
7 months ago
IMHO he’s not hiding them, he’s documenting them. Capturing the environment in picture form. #posterity
Awesome video, thanks!! ;
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@Alex_Gordon
7 months ago
you really hit the jackpot with this one, lady! ; absolutely fascinating!
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@jamesantosca4005
7 months ago
Fascinating analysis! I had no clue about the symbolic meanings.
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@hendrikplumer6814
7 months ago
Subscribed. Not only for the content but also for the comments. Brilliant!
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@massimosquecco8956
7 months ago
Your lecture is truly impressive so, please tell us -your audience - about all of the other 4 season and, if it is possible, about the sixth painting, the one we have lost forever...
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@jaythompson5102
7 months ago
This painting also proves that ice hockey is a lot older than we think. This is I think the oldest representation of ice hockey in history.
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@jeffreyestahl
7 months ago
This is clearly a village that has hunger and is overly cold. The inn representing St Hubertus has broken windows, a door that's missing, and the women outside are burning furniture to stay warm. The dead man in the middle of the lake is drawing no one's attention suggesting that the village has seen enough of this that they've become jaded to it. Admittedly, it's my opinion, but Bruegel seems to be commenting on the suffering brought about by religious strife as well. He loved to portray the suffering of common people (D;rer has a similar quirk).
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@DonnyShine
7 months ago
excellent work
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@MattJBarnes
7 months ago
That was so good! I have no idea why it appeared in my feed, but I’m glad it did. ;
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@phoenixxavier9615
7 months ago
So what about the transparent chimney at 7:22? The one who's perspective is completely off. Also, the tree to the left of it is showing a different vista between its two branches. There seems to be something going on here in this part of the painting.
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@Binkertonbonkerton
7 months ago
Brilliant work. The detail in this painting is crazy
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@LukeBunyip
7 months ago
Discussion of the rest of Pieter Bruegel's portfolio, whether in sequential part, a selection, or in totally would be greatly appreciated
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@furfamilysue
7 months ago
I enjoyed this very much. Alla Prima's presentation has me thinking and that alone is enough. I just subscribed.
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@76Central
7 months ago
Great stuff lady! Keep them coming!
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@Iv_john_vI
7 months ago
How big was this picture? The resolution is amazing.
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@Gamvrelis
7 months ago
As a Canadian, I must admit shock at seeing the use of ice hockey sticks that long ago! Also, the top of that distant mountain appears to include a godly-like face, with a scowl.
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@williammkydde
7 months ago (edited)
Brueghel is fascinating. A nice interpretation. I've been wondering forever where such Alpine mountains would be hiding in a land called 'Low Countries'. Even the hill the hunters on is fishy, let alone the Matterhorn on the horizon. I have this painting on my wall right in front of me, as I'm watching your video, as well as the Boerenbruiloft that you show in a glimpse. What a treat!
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@barbaradaly9838
6 months ago
So interesting, thank you.
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@yveaux500
6 months ago (edited)
5:36 interesting background as (Northern) Flanders is as flat as a pancake and does not have any mountains, not even small hills.
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@myradioon
7 months ago
Its a chimney fire not a house fire.
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@agrimstad1962
7 months ago
Thank you for this valuable analysis! Please bring on more of the same!
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@peterpawlik2495
7 months ago
Great analysis. Immediately subscribed and looking forward to your next posting ;
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@caroldelaney4700
6 months ago
This was the kind addition we always had at art lectures a bit of fun added after the more intense painterly discussions.every part of the painting is about symbols we always knew this.
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@woosh_woosh
7 months ago
One of this month's unlikely gems in my feed, which i'm greatful the algorithm for.
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@eduardopires6140
7 months ago
Yes, please, continue your analysis.
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@henrymach
7 months ago
Waitaminute... I know this voice
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@marilynmckenzie2111
7 months ago (edited)
Thank you for this wonderful video. ;; I always loved Art History in high school ( 60 yrs ago) and purchased some colourful art books when visiting Amsterdam museums in 1975 . I always remembered Peter Bruegel’s paintings with pies on the roofs and people everywhere. So much to take in visually. I do love to hear analysis of his paintings. I have subscribed to your channel today! ;;;;;;;;
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@youcancallmeana
6 months ago
I'm glad you added the explanation for the mountains at the end. That was confusing.
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@mindrolling24
5 months ago
I find the contrast of the rather pale background and the dark, solid shapes of the hunters, their hounds, the trees etc really interesting.
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@SomebodyBumbleBee
7 months ago (edited)
Great little history lesson!
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@evelinharmannfan7191
7 months ago
One thing needs to be mentioned: In medieval Europe, hunters belonged to the aristocracy. But peasants and townspeople were not allowed to hunt.
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@WillieM149
7 months ago
Excellent work. Thanks.
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@f.w.ordemorton8057
7 months ago
I should have added that this is one of my favourite paintings too - I was lucky and that wonderful room to myself for an hour
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@TEXTILE2010
6 months ago
Very interesting
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@tangiblepress
7 months ago
excellent. I enjoyed this.
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@jointgib
7 months ago
why are people burning stuff just outside the pub?
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@robertcook2572
7 months ago
' Peter Broogle' ;;
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@TheShadowOfZama
7 months ago (edited)
I am Flemish and never bothered to think about this painting too much, however I really liked this explanation. Fun facts. Also I laughed out loud when you explained the mountains at the end. I was starting to wonder if you were just going to ignore the big ass mountains in the back when Flanders has no mountains, but haha...yeah considering the amount of details the painter put into this painting those mountains were well-earned creative liberties. Good video!
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@ethanculbreth2466
7 months ago
Dang, half a million views.
Congratulations on blowing the hell up!!!
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@Thorkitty19
7 months ago (edited)
"Northern Flanders, the scene depicted in the painting." Ah yes, that is the one thing I remember about the Netherlands and Belgium, the mountains.
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@adriaan2618
7 months ago
5:36 Northern Flanders...??? more like Italie or France! I live in Flanders, the North is flat as a pancake!
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@xjAlbert
7 months ago (edited)
She says Broogle like Google. Much of the world says BROYgul like soil.
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@victoriahiggins5458
6 months ago
More videos from you analysing more of this series, yes please!
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@chrissiebarrow9998
7 months ago
It is the first time I have absolutly enjoyed a commentry on a painting , especially one which I have always liked ogling
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@tomdavidson5719
7 months ago
Pronounced Broy gle not Broo gle!
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@014D
7 months ago
So much repetition.
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@GerhardSteinmayer
7 months ago
J;ger gehen an einem Wirtshaus VORBEI ??? ;
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@stevesalvage1089
7 months ago
Iv always found this painting so interesting showing life as it was so early , just think of all the inventions that came after, thanks for sharing , brilliant
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@robinmessing530
7 months ago
Wow--I must admit my ignorance of art history, and I have never heard of Pieter Brugel before. I would NEVER have caught any of this symbolism had I seen this painting, but given all you discussed, this is one of the most amazing pieces of art that I have ever seen. Great job on this video!
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@Buoyant_Armiger
7 months ago
1. Those are not spears, those are walking sticks. They visibly have no point and you need them in a snowy forest to hold balance and prevent missteping.
2. This is not a house fire, this is soot burning in the chimney, hence the ladders to put it out from the top.
Please don’t just assume things or say whatever came to your mind first, this is misleading to a lot of people here in the comments who believe the first thing they are told.
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@ЛеонидФедяков-ъ9я
5 months ago
The lady sounds annoying.
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@ThePortChicagoWitness
7 months ago
7:49 " not danger everywhere but the devil's traps everywhere". - And the difference is?
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@justmybeeswax
6 months ago
While you're at it... go on! You're doing a fine job.
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@francoisbaugey2570
7 months ago
Magnifique analyse allant au-del; des apparences bucoliques... Merci ! Je ma rappelle avec d;lices d'une analyse identique d;couvrant p;ch;s et proverbes dissimul;s dans un autre tableau de ce grand ma;tre flamand...
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@ba5iLisk
5 months ago
One of my all time favorite paintings
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@TimClatworthy
7 months ago
A fascinating analysis, and delightfully delivered, thank you!
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@ChrisCooperXmarksthespot
3 months ago
I love art history, and this interpretation was no exception. The one thing that surprise me, and the first thing I noticed was the figure laying on the ice I thought for sure that would have something to do with the hunters looking down in that direction.
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@charliejdk
7 months ago
Love this. One of my favorites. Now I can see it better.
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@jarrowmarrow
7 months ago
Thank you one of my favorite paintings now i know it better.
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@4etuber8
6 months ago
Thank you for this insightful analysis, with much to contemplate. This painting was an early favorite of mine, around age 19, and inspired me into a deep dive on Bruegel who remains one of my favorite artists mainly for his sweeping depictions of common (peasant) life with every figure seemingly caught in mid-action. Yes, he packed a lot of hidden meanings into his work, often based on common metaphors (some lost to time) like a black cat crossing your path equals bad luck. Leave it to the internet to see so many comments about oh, it's only a "chimney fire"--good luck putting that out in the frozen winter! But yes, a lot to consider about these relatively empty-handed hunters while "your house" is on fire. For those interested in Bruegel, see his "Procession to Calvary"--it took me about 5 minutes to even find JC while the locals go about their business. Thanks again!
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@rossholderpoet
6 months ago
One of my favourite paintings. Such enlightening commentary and useful comments too! I yearn to be back in art school ; this helps tremendously.
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@SNP-1999
7 months ago (edited)
Fascinating! Thanks for the explanations! I have always loved the 16th & 17th century Flemish artists for their down to earth realism and would love you to analyse Bruegel's other seasonal paintings.
5 Stars of 5 !
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@Overwatch-60
7 months ago
Yes analyse the other five painting please, and when did the sixth painting disappear ?
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@WilliamHahn-o8f
7 months ago
A little musical symbolism of your own? Playing the William Tell Overture while discussing Bruegel's travels in the Alps. Nice.
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@Jesusandbible
7 months ago
It is, quite simply, a masterpiece.
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@maggpiprime954
7 months ago
I love Pieter Bruegel the Elder's winter scenes.
The view from my apartment in the winter often has the same shades of foggy green. Funny how we think that the aged paints aren't true to life, when life in front of us will just go, "nah, that totally tracks."
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@anthonyferreyra-e3f
7 months ago
Anthony in California would very much enjoy your dissertation his other works.
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@AmericanWoman1964
7 months ago
Great post
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@DanGoodman-n4b
7 months ago
Amazing analysis. You definitely got my attention.
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@ginafromcologne9281
7 months ago
Thank you, that was really interesting and enjoyable!
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@wendywhite2642
7 months ago
fascinating commentary! So much more peaceful to listen to than today's news! I tried so hard to get a close-up on that burning house and I could not do it. Someone said that this was definitively a chimney fire caused by creosote buildup and I thought how the hell do they know that?:-)
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@rollothecat2010
7 months ago
Thank you for this analysis of this painting. I have been fascinated by Bruegal's work since I took Art History classes in University.
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@stevenpayne850
7 months ago (edited)
Excellent! I really enjoyed your analysis. I also note that the villagers huddled near the burning fire below the broken sign keep their backs to the hunters , save for two who were looking toward the town with concern. It amplifies their shame.
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@steveanderson7536
6 months ago
This has always been my favorite painting ever.
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@HansDunkelberg1
5 months ago
Wonderful explanation! This kind of instruction makes art come to life and enthrall you.
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@thisisjmx
7 months ago
Would love to see you go over the other paintings
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@battenkillrambler
7 months ago
I got to see this recently at a museum in Vienna (the most magical city on Earth!), along with many of his other works. Absolutely masterful and very impressive to see in person.
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@kirkchapman80
7 months ago
The details narrated are correct and profectic .
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@va3ngc
7 months ago
Yes please do a commentary on the other four paintings, and the missing fifth as well with whatever is known about it.
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@toddlewis3075
7 months ago
Enjoyed this article very much. A real eye- opener.. i was looking at color and mood. DUH!
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@steveschmidt5156
7 months ago
One of my favorite paintings.
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@sapereaude3554
7 months ago
I can’t get enough of the excellent French series "Les petits secrets des grands tableaux". With the quality of your presentation, it becomes a delightful alternative I truly enjoy—thank you so much.
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@silverwings8127
7 months ago
O certainly enjoyed being instructed about the symbolism and history in this video. Thank you. I’d love to see more.
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@johnthompson8278
6 months ago
Saw this painting, and stared at it for an hour. It is so fascinating and there are so many sub-stories within it.
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@sibelle1
7 months ago
Loved it as a Dutchman. Love to hear your other Breugel iconografics.
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@wujibifan5938
7 months ago
Thank you for this very illuminating in-depth- analysis. Many details I wouldn't have noticed myself, let alone the hidden message. Yes, please give as more of these videos, looking forward to watch them. Thank you for your precious work!
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@spiritualpolitics8205
7 months ago
This was most excellent! Please continue this great series!
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@vd121
7 months ago
pls do more pieces on Bruegel! thank you
will take your commentary along to the gallery visit
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@joyrippel7307
7 months ago
What a treat. I look forward to the analysis of the other paintings.
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@StasikaSta
7 months ago
Thanks for the videos! I would like to see the analysis of his other works, especially the Gloomy day.
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@andrew_owens7680
7 months ago
This is one of my favorite paintings of all time and I've missed so many details! Thank you. I know that this painting resolves the issue landscape painters have with composing a foreground and a background that don't jar from an abrupt transition.
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@leannastoufer6333
7 months ago
I would enjoy seeing your analysis of Bruegel's other paintings.
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@thierrythomas4858
7 months ago
of course we want more analysis of this type!!!! tanhks!
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@blacksunfish
7 months ago
One of my favorite painters!
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@pjgeev
7 months ago
This video was very interesting. Yes, please more videos about the rest of this series of paintings. Thank you very much!
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@HelenT-xv6zm
7 months ago
Most interesting. Please do the rest too.
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@piercoucy
7 months ago
very good video. Congratulations!
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@ConsciousCodeAGI
6 months ago
Seen this picture multiple times but didnt know the meaning behind it, thanks!
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@pyciar
5 months ago
Niezbadane s; algorytmy YouTube. Jak ja tu w og;le trafi;em i jakim cudem obejrza;em do ko;ca?
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@CDMOOVEE
7 months ago
Brilliant! Very interesting.
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@gijsvandenberg9140
7 months ago
Thank you. I enjoyed the lecture!
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@kevken3293
7 months ago
Eccellent little programme, I have a print of this painting but had never noticed the symbolism, thank you!
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@ruthregister740
7 months ago
Please analyze the others in the series--this was great!
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@raffaelevalente7811
7 months ago
Liked and subscribed... great video!
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@cardinalgin
6 months ago
Yes, please do analyse the other 4 in the series.
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@DianaLindeman-m9l
6 months ago
Please make videos for the others. I enjoy these educational videos.
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@Hugo-b5r5t
7 months ago
Both the Painting and the analysis were beautiful. Thank you
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@chadhass133
7 months ago
Yes please. Love your explanations
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@AxelPoliti
7 months ago
Really great! And I saw this picture dozens of time and knew the power of allegories. Still, you opened my eyes. Thank you
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@karencrecco2922
7 months ago
Wow! Who would ever have thought you could get so much out of a painting?! Thank you for this insight!
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@monah5532
7 months ago
I haven't enjoyed a YouTube this much for a long time. Thank you!
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@paulkurilecz4209
7 months ago
Thank you. I very much appreciate videos like this.
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@steve8189
7 months ago
The best of paintings and photos tell stories and reveal lives. Candid photos around the home, paintings like this. Great video.
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@platomk123
6 months ago
I want this painting. Tks for sharing.
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@georgerutter2221
7 months ago
Yes please add more ;
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@albundy9918
7 months ago
Beautiful painting !
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@davemusic2023
7 months ago
Good work ! Looking forward in your analysis of “The Hay harvest”.
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@jangschoen1019
7 months ago
Great video, adding Bach's BWV 639 Ich ruf zu dir, herr Jesu Christ would be a nice touch.
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@bibubbletea
7 months ago
Yes please make videos about the other ones, this one was so interesting
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@GregoryVincent-d9u
7 months ago (edited)
What a marvellous painting! I love the detail and the realism, and the atmosphere of Winter which it so successfully conjures up.
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@marcinswoboda7993
7 months ago (edited)
I like how you talked about this painting. It was on the wall in my family home. For me it brings cosy memories. For me hunters were just tired after the hunt. And this is chimney fire, which is quite common especially if chimney is not swept regularly. Can be dangerous, but not as dangerous as house fire. PS It would be great if you could analyze more Bruegel paintings or maybe The Last Judgment by Hans Memling.
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@jantewierik3905
7 months ago
All video long, I was like: where are these mountains in Flanders?
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@tamarausher60
7 months ago
It always has been one of my favorite painting, a truly masterpiece of European art.. and I knew some of the explanations before. But it was nice and educational to learn many other facts from this short but highly informative video, as a deal, I saw it various times. Definitely, this painting is so such a big masterpiece, also it has a thoughtful composition and iniqual concentration of thoughts, feelings and protagonists
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@henryviii6341
7 months ago
isn’t the mountain scene - deliberately out of place and in fact references SPAIN as an illegal occupier - the Mountains being the Pyrenees - the Hunters are the Spanish falling off the cliff empty handed - in other words this is REVOLUTIONARY.
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@benjaminchandler1177
7 months ago
Yes. More Bruegel, please.
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@gld5129
7 months ago
Excellent commentary and history lesson, Thank You!
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@Brock.Isaac.Brock.007
6 months ago
Very interesting! I'd love to see your analysis of the other Bruegels.
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@georgescott6829
7 months ago
Very nice analisys, look forward to hearing about the remaining 4 paintings in the series
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@NgaleMa2910
7 months ago
Thank you so much for the fascinating interpretation, and it would be fantastic to watch and hear the analysis for the other paintings in this series of Bruegel as well!
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@sirgalahad1470
7 months ago
I would love to see more videos of Bruegel's work. This is amazing.
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@jemsmay2167
7 months ago
Saw this piece in person in Vienna. Awesome work, and one that can keep your interest for a long time. My favorite little details are the expressions on the dogs and the hockey players. Especially since this was painted before hockey was born. Even bandy and shinty or shinny were not known or at least reported in the early 1500s.
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@siriosstar4789
5 months ago
Are there any written records by the artist describing what HE meant or even any second hand records by those close to him ?
If not ,then this is just wild speculation .
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@Morten-f9o
7 months ago
Amazing analysis. I'm happy that your channel suddenly came forward as an suggested video
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@rickaaayyyhoffman4893
7 months ago
I've always loved this painting, but I definitely haven't looked at all these details
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@russellbride
6 months ago
I had the good fortune to see this painting in Vienna last year!
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@LohitDutta-o7o
7 months ago
Excellent. Yes please analyse the other four. I am looking Forward.
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@halfaminutearthur6926
7 months ago
Yes ,please .that was So interesting & informative
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@dwdei8815
7 months ago
This has totally opened my eyes to - yeah I'll admit it - a painting I always thought was one of jovial winter fun. I noticed the waterwheel in the bottom right corner, frozen thick with ice. This is a village that will have no flour, so no bread, as well as no venison stew.
The Bruegels are worth an entire series. I'd watch the lot. (I wrote this before you asked us directly). But do try to pronounce the "ue" like the vowel-sound of "fur" - it's a start. "Broogles" they ain't.
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@countesscable
7 months ago
That painting strikes fear into my heart; I large print of it hung outside my morning Tutorial at my hated school. I used to stare at it every day for years.
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@noregrets7469
7 months ago
Yes please add the rest of his painting for this artist. I enjoy your breakdown of this picture. Thank you;
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@donalddavidson5919
7 months ago
Well done. Please do analyze the other paintings in the series.
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@Frank-bn6mb
5 months ago
This is one of my favorite paintings showing the Little Iceage (February 1565). I literally spent hours looking at it when I visited the Kulturhistorisches museum in Vienna. Good to hear the comment in the video and also the comments from the viewers. Some details mentioned I did not even notice or know. Thank you all for that. A pity that this whole series of paintings has been spread out and can not be viewed all together and that one piece is missing. I would highly appreciate it when the other paintings would also be analysed.
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@chercorbeau
5 months ago
Would love your comments on the other paintings. I will be in Vienna next month and cannot wait to watch the whole "seasonal" series again at the museum for art and history (if I remember well) . Thank you again.
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@tksskt4880
7 months ago
I really enjoyed this. Thanks. Please do more.
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@fritzthecat0815
7 months ago
Great Work! ;;; Did you anslyze the Netherlandish Proverbs? If not, this would be very interesting.
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@kinghenry100
7 months ago
Nice video
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@joseelempecinao89
7 months ago
Of course I am interested. Brilliant analysis, thank you.
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@tw1sted1nc
7 months ago
Found your channel through this video - Please cover the rest of these Bruegels and maybe some history on the missing part of the sequence?
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@gazoontight
7 months ago
Yes, do videos on the rest of the paintings.
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@kg5136
8 days ago
I very much enjoyed your interesting analysis of Breughel‘s Hunters in the Snow. If you could do some more of his paintings that would be lovely! Thanks very much ;
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@dan_raleigh
7 months ago
The mountains in the background look a bit like angels looking down on the scene.
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@treefarm3288
7 months ago
There's a wonderful giant projected version of this painting in two different museums I've seen.
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@irafair3015
7 months ago
I love his paintings.
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@jgr007
7 months ago
I'd definitely like to see and analysis of The Harvesters!
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@Mike-g4o1b
7 months ago
yes i did wonder about the mountains in Flanders ! very interesting
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@mikelistman5263
6 months ago
Thanks! Love Bruegel
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@Janice-o5w
7 months ago
Yes please, I would like to gain further understanding of this incredible artist.
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@eelaws
7 months ago
Please do analyze Bruegel's other paintings. This one was fascinating.
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@eveostay
6 months ago
Very interesting! My favorite painting in New York is Breugel's Harversters, which you mentioned. Would love to see an in-depth analysis of it!
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@antondillet466
7 months ago
A very nice and interesting video, Thank you!
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@ivandjordjevic712
7 months ago
This is great ; thanks
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@JackSmith-wg4mf
7 months ago (edited)
Never knew that Flanders in Belgium had such high mountains !!
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@davideaston6944
7 months ago
Cool painting... SO much! face-red-heart-shape
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@robertclarkson6064
7 months ago
Thanks so much ;;;
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@halporter9
7 months ago
This is really informative. I have learned a lot.
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@johnclark1925
5 months ago
Fantastic
Liked and sub’d
More please. Other seasons definitely
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@vendelius
7 months ago
I enjoyed this vid.. amazing painter for his time..
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@AverageNiceGuy
7 months ago
Nicely narrated ;;
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@MrHorse-by3mp
7 months ago
Never thought there was anything the slightest bit innocent about Bruegel. Man was laying down some Songs of Experience.
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@SantaClaw5
7 months ago
Great video!! More of this please
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@perry92964
7 months ago
the house didnt look like it was on fire to me however you didnt mention the guy about to toss a table onto the fire next to the hunters, a representation of hard times maybe?
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@flipphone4755
7 months ago
This painting is on the cover of a great book about the Mini Ice Age
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@tomungless2852
4 months ago
It's a chimney fire not a burning house. The haste to deal with it is to stop it spreading to the house
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@tiea_jr
7 months ago
You know, I've seen this painting a million times and I never would
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@liisulotte1805
7 months ago
Fantastic work with this video!
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@davidhull1481
7 months ago
All along I was thinking that the mountain was really out of place for Flanders.
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@davidryan4454
7 months ago
Very interesting & well narrated ;;
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@paulbahn4577
6 months ago
Thank you!
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@gothicwriter9897
7 months ago
Tanks for this. I enjoyed your analysis and I doubt Breugel would have necessarily contradicted you if he had still been around.
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@thehappyhound770
7 months ago
Loved this!!! Thank you!
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@derekpaton2775
7 months ago
Thank you for the enlightenment
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@beckyontheroad3300
7 months ago
I've always enjoyed Peter Breugal's work, because he focuses on peasants and everyday life, but I had no idea about all the hidden subtext! Thank you - this was really interesting and illuminating!
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@crvlad
7 months ago
Such a great and timeless painting.
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@elisabethlinz4256
7 months ago
Interesting!
Thank you so much.
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@brucekuehn4031
7 months ago
Between the 1560s and the 1630s there was a particularly cold period called the Grindelwald Fluctuation. This caused great expansion to the glaciers in the Alps. Those mountains in the background look more like the Alpine region.
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@da_RadaR
7 months ago
very interesting vid, made entertaining like a movie, thx a lot.
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@True-b4c
7 months ago
Fascinating, much appreciated.
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@rickducharme7429
7 months ago
absolutely brilliant! the artist, the painting, and the explication. wonderful!
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@TijmenHatesads
7 months ago
Great video! I've always felt a bit of pity for the hunters coming home. Snow like that is hard to walk through, forests can really be bare in winters like that, and it looks like even though they're returning with some game, it's less calories than they took to gather. Breugel probably didn't count calories like we did, but he must've been aware that even a successful hunt can be a failure.
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@HAL_9000-m3z
7 months ago
Nice work.
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@scathatch
7 months ago
Regardless of its many meanings and symbols. This painting is one of the greatest paintings of the Western canon . It is absolutely one of my favourites. It's pristine clarity, its tonal brilliance, its masterful composition, it's graphic clarity. It's brilliant draughtmanship.. All this lays the foundation for the knowledge that the symbolism of the painting reveals. All great paintings embody symbolism and meaning to those who understand and can read the symbols. Australian aboriginal paintings do. There is a story of how a white fella who disrespected the indigenous artists he was working with was given a painting by those same artists. Little did he know what that painting he so proudly displayed in his office really said about him!
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@aicul_66
7 months ago
Makes me curious about the other pictures of that series. -- I loved Pieter Bruegel as a child, in a naive way of course, without understanding his symbolic language. There was his picture about Dutch proverbs in a museum round the corner of my home, and I used to drop in often after school to look at this amazing picture (there was no entrance fee at that time). If you could say something about that picture -- that would be a dream ;
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@Witiok1992
7 months ago
These pictures look so modern in style.
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@visionpiping1048
7 months ago
More please. Keep it real
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@wxjunkie
7 months ago
Love this painting
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@frankhodge7654
7 months ago
Thanks for the tour. ;
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@joanneburslem4330
7 months ago
I love this painting, ive just done it in watercolours, much smaller
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@TonyTruth-s9z
7 months ago
I have this print and a Winter Landscape with Skaters with "hidden symbols" by Hendrick Avercamp. They are in the winter rotation. Upon study, an ancient lifetime comes alive and feeds wonder of an existence that was a daily struggle.
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@nanetteodendhal5789
7 months ago
Yes, more please
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@carolienversteeg6257
7 months ago
Really interesting!
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@VolV8
7 months ago
Very good.
Thanks :)
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@johndoe-rq1pu
7 months ago
It’s a hyperbolic work where perspective doesn’t exist !!
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@Slowbuck1
7 months ago
This picture was really worth millions of words;. I think the artist is just doodling most of the time;;
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@boplantin9343
7 months ago
Thank you for making me smarter.
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@Funkywallot
7 months ago (edited)
I am sceptical about the mountains in the background. As far as I know there are no such mountains in flandern ? And if they do exist - we could pin point the exact location of this village ?
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@MooseBme
7 months ago
Wow!
Cool, THANKS!
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@michaelmallin1
7 months ago
Who'd of thunk it. Good analysis. Bruegel was a great artist with a subtle and sardonic wit. Yet...though the hunters return with little...the folk are happily playing on the ice.
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@ThomasELockMusic
7 months ago
Please do continue ;
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@nathanfarbman3927
7 months ago
Wonderful. Bruegel is one of my favorite painters. Thanks for your elucidations. I must add that I have been pronouncing his name as “Broy gel with accent on the first part broy - gel thank you
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@zvonimirvidovic1714
7 months ago
Great video! By all means, please do the analyse of other paintings! Greetings from Croatia!
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@allisonchiswell
6 months ago
Cool Painting ;
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@Dutch_Uncle
7 months ago (edited)
My favorite Brughel is seen briefly at 2:56. Accoring to my Dutch teacher about 1/3 of the proverbs are used in contemporary Dutch, 1/3 are not but are understandable, and 1/3 draw blanks for most of todaky's speakers of the language "The Dutch Proverbs" is on display in Berlin, I think at the Stiftung Preusischer Kulturbesitz. Some paintings of the era have a religious basis but also have incusions that show a political slant. The soliders in Biblical settings are not shown in Roman gear, but in the dress of Spanish Hapsburg soldiers, the Netherlands then being under Hapsburg authority.
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@doug985
7 months ago
Awesome painting
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@2FRESH-4U
7 months ago
What amazing art that guy painted
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@martzenvandenbroek
7 months ago
I adore this painting;
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@Sut4Tea
7 months ago
Loved this!
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@kevinu.k.7042
7 months ago
Arrows for deer, those are likely Boar spears. You can't get that close to a deer and those are too heavy for throwing.
Great video as always - Thank you.
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@susanroutt6690
7 months ago
I love his work and a reproduction of Flemish Proverbs is on the wall near me as I watch this. ;
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@phoenixvideos2025
7 months ago
Interesting book cover choice for Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These. Apt or maybe another hidden message ?
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@indricotherium4802
7 months ago
This painting's better interpretation is the folly of the masses, playing games to shut out the uncomfortable realities of life going on all around them, only breaking off to deal with emergencies happening right under their nose. It's a very appropriate lesson for today, if we substitute in video games.
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@DrKaoliN
7 months ago
9:33 Yes, could you please analyze a painting of Herri met de Bles?
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@pedropeixoto1241
7 months ago
Wonderful!
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@hdoble2390
7 months ago
Yes please more
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@maram;.r
7 months ago
That mountainous landscape can’t be Flemish
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@chrismorgan7494
5 months ago
Fascinating!
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@sagrammyfour
7 months ago
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@aruvielevenstar3944
7 months ago (edited)
I am Dutch and if I look at the painting I see mountains too and there aren’t mountains or big rock formations in the Netherlands and Belgium, maybe in the Ardennen but I don’t think that this was a real place in the Netherlands what he painted. So it must be symbolic too. Edit: you mentioned it in the last sentence ;
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@96KurTi
7 months ago
Thank you for the perfect analysis! I hope I can understand Tarkovsky’s idea of demonstrating in “Solaris” film this painting now.
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@Mark_Fulco
7 months ago
Good documentary. Rather depressing symbols and descriptions, but that was the time period. On the surface, it is a pleasant painting without reading too much into it.
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@halporter9
7 months ago
I would love to wear your analysis of the others.
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@stevyndembo7836
7 months ago
Chimney fire ... experienced one as a Kid!
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@timetraveller717
6 months ago
So basically he said with that painting that dangers are everywhere, but humans are mostly careless and unaware being preoccupied with their daily life and tasks.
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@JonesyMnemonic
7 months ago
Great vid!
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@ybbsybbs
7 months ago
What I've always felt, even as a kid, was that the landscapes in paintings from that era are eerily unreal. In an uncanny valley sort of way. I studied a bit of geomorphology at uni and none of these landscapes make sense, geo(morpho)logically. But how the heck did my 7 year old brain that grew up with no TV and very little access to photographs "know" that these landscapes don't add up?
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@MBoyer-ng6ok
7 months ago
Nice interpretation. What at first looks bucolic actually has symbols related to the struggle for life, religion, scarcity--literally a dangerous landscape (chimney fires, crows, crooked saint signs, failed hunts, deeply frozen).
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@UnindictedCo-Conspirator
7 months ago
Fascinating
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@danielm.4346
5 months ago (edited)
Who is the person doing the narration, please?
Beautifully well done, I thought.
Thank You.
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@grinpisu
5 months ago
Very interesting! However those mountains like Alps are simple imagination and I can't presume that blunder was intentional.
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@kendyboston4225
6 months ago
This was a very enjoyable and informative video . I'm interested in the distant mountains . Often distant objects are not really noticed by viewers , but these mountains are very sharp and pointy . In a painting sharp and pointy objects grab attention and are thus moved forward . On the way to the ominous mountains the burning house is a small domestic disaster . The mountains represent vast catastrophe in the future . I think this painting is saying that the small disasters happening right now are are portent of future armageddon.
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@lekt;returbo
2 weeks ago
Unglaublich interessant ;!! Danke! ;
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@youriamerijckx4524
7 months ago
I was about to ask about the mountains in the right above corner, but you adressed that in the final comments. I didn't notice them before. I am from Flanders, from Pajottenland, the region that was depicted here. I was a bit confused, we don't have mountains, anywhere in Flanders.
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@shipovnik89
7 months ago
My favorite painting by Bruegel is Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, the trap itself is drawn so ordinary, that we, people with a delicate psyche, are upset by it
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@marijkevissers8023
7 months ago
Good story;
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@edi9892
7 months ago
Also, the waterwheel hasn't been moving for months. This proofs that it's been a long and consistently cold winter!
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@charold3
7 months ago
Mountain a little like that in Cole’s Course of Empire series. Same position too, rear right.
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@itsGagandeepPejatta
5 months ago
Wow, Peter waz a pretty Kool, dude.
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@Reglar_Cat
7 months ago
9:38 Yes - all of them! ;
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@BobSchoepenjr
7 months ago
Well done!
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@anneduigan4933
7 months ago
You looking at the painting with the softened view of modern day way living. Life was harsher then with no fire brigades, big hospitals, big butcheries out of sight. People lived with the realities of life and death in close proximity.
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@EZRADUCE
6 months ago
MORE PLEASE ...
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@tomaarten
7 months ago
I like the idea of the peasants being blissfully unaware of the dangers around them, like the famine that's about to come from the bad hunting trip. it could be the first bad trip, with the peasant not thinking anything of it, but the hunters knowing it's the start of many. the hunters look like they're be the bearers of the bad news.
and yeah, you won't find those mountains anywhere near Belgium. it's probably to fill up some empty space? definitely wish it was real though.
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@alisonmccracken-mills5381
7 months ago
Bruegel....my absolute favourite painter. Taschen published a magnificent book on the complete paintings ... I'm leaving heavy hints for Christmas!!;
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@susanelainesanner
7 months ago
I'm curious about the missing painting in the series on seasons the commentary mentions. And, yes, I am interested in hearing and seeing factual analysis of the historic cultures of Bruegel the Elder's works . . . and beyond. A little of the speaker's 'attitude' would be wonderful.
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@gerardoconnor4278
7 months ago
Thank you, great video and commentary.
Bruegel is my favourite painter. Innovative in technique, master at messaging and so sympathetic to the ordinary people. He was certainly influenced by Bosch.
Amongst my favourites is his harrowing Le Massacre des innocents(1567). A picture for the ages with a hidden message, and one worth studying alongside Le Denombrement de Bethleem (1566). A most interesting and amusing work is Paysage avec la chute d'Icare, ~ 1558.
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@lukeywalsh
7 months ago
Reminds me of the opening scene in the movie Melancholia
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@keyster4985
7 months ago
When you take the train between Brussels and Ghent (which I did for 42 years) you can see the church in the painting, it's the one from a village called Sinte Anna Pede (now part of Dilbeek), just outside Brussels. At that moment the train drives over a viaduct and the reason is that the landscape there is very hilly. Only the mountains in the background do not exist.
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@jpfloru1
6 months ago
Extremely interesting from beginning to end. Thank you. The Spanish Inquisition was horrendous in my place of birth. It was so bad, that 500 years later Flemish people are aware of it and still talk about it.
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@jlanderson21257
7 months ago (edited)
Wow, I never saw the resemblance between Brueger and Grandma Moses before I looked at this more closely. I could be way off, but I see a resemblance in style.
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@malcolmscott1509
7 months ago
please do more Breugel ;;;;
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@PMA65537
6 months ago
good music choices
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@Ounouh
7 months ago
That isn't a house fire. That's a chimney fire that has good potential to turn into a house fire.
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@jersen5085
6 months ago
I saw this painting in real life in Vienna, I don't know the story but it was fascinating still.
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@annecosgrove2133
7 months ago
I enjoy Dutch artwork from this time period. Thanks for your analysis. I hope you have made videos about the other paintings in the series and will look at your channel. My son lived in the Netherlands when he attended Leiden University. It was beautiful, but definitely no landscapes with these elevation differences. The mountains and hills certainly do add visual interest to the composition! We don’t have a memory of just how cold it was then or the huge impact on daily life. In addition, the political/religious situation just piled on the stress.
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@Badadodadoop
7 months ago
I really liked this video
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@kirpalani-griffin3706
7 months ago
Beautiful and wonderful art.
Could do without the superimposed snow.
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@hawkeye8954
7 months ago
Thank you for your insightful analysis. Am I just imagining things or does there appear to a steep snowy slope that the hunters are approaching on their way back to town? Any hidden meaning here other than danger is everywhere theme?
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@InternationalsPRO
7 months ago
We have watched a blockbuster.
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@francescodiciaula3774
6 months ago
Of course this reading of details in a symbolic way can work, but in the flemish paintings the love for details and their "humourisitc" essence, was a part of the whole representation. You can see this also in the other great flemish painter of the XVI century, H.Bosch.
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@blackbird5634
7 months ago
In a time when manufactured images were rare, it wasn't the peasant class who got to see Bruegel's work every day, it would have been like watching TV for someone of that era to ''read this painting'' and discover its many hidden meanings.
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@crvlad
7 months ago
Analyse all the great ones. You are good at this. Maybe some Monet or Shishkin (Road in the Rye).
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@denniskos2806
6 months ago
More please
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@Trevor_Austin
7 months ago
The house fire is a chimney fire. This is where the soot in an unswept chimney catches fire. Its shape then draws in more air and before long the chimney sets fire to the house.
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@GT-dh5nk
7 months ago
The leftmost person on the ice unmistakably looks like he's playing hockey, complete with stick and puck, but hockey hadn't taken form until the late 1800s. When I looked into why this image in the painting is over 300 years out of place, I found this painting referenced in both the History of Ice Hockey and the Bandy pages on Wikipedia. Guess I'm not the only person whose eye was caught by this.
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@bramblebeach7
7 months ago
Well reasoned
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@miob1781
5 months ago
Wow, they are playing curling!
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@paulkinzer7661
7 months ago
I find it interesting that this painting was on the cover of my introductory sociology class in college back in the 1970s. I recall looking for anything about the painting within the book, but, if memory serves -- and it may well not! -- there was nothing. Obviously, there could have been plenty.
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@russmartin4189
7 months ago
Thanks for the insightful analysis. I was never very fond of this painting and my Art History professors did not see what you saw. They just presented it as a winter scene. Since paintings could take a month or more to complete, it does not make sense, given the political climate and actual climate, that Breugel would have been both blind and oblivious and not inclued references. I now like it a lot more after your analysis. I should take you with me to art museums.
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@nickstephwestwood1869
7 months ago
in my local church there is a attempt by an unattributed norwich school artist to capture the style of Bruegel in a feat painting filled with hidden messages and meanings in a large painting of a feast day
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@Echoak95
7 months ago
If you want to see this in person, its in Vienna at the Kunsthistorische Museum, which has the largest Bruegel Collection, aswell as many other famous collections, like Rembrandt, Rubens, D;rer, Holbein and Bosch. Together with the Albertina and the Belvedere, Vienna has the largest collection of famous drawings in the world.
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@Phylonyous
7 months ago
Do them all!!! Please
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@duffyjas1
7 months ago
The "ue" in Breugel is pronounced similarly "oy" in boy. We were introduced to Bruegel by my poetry professor James Doyle who also introduced us to the poet William Carlos Williams. Williams has several poems which are based on several Bruegel paintings, one of which is the "Hunters in the Snow". Williams is known for capturing the American idiom- language without ornaments or affectations.
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@MagUidhir958AD
7 months ago
I think it fair to say that hiding easter eggs was an expected gimmick in Dutch Renaissance painting.
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@philipalexander1507
6 months ago
I appreciate you sharing the work of this wonderful artist! I was frustrated by the mispronunciation of his name, though, which actually rhymes with “royal” not “bugle”.
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@troyallen8223
7 months ago
Chimney fire.. ;
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@TeaTime222
7 months ago
This painting actually came up in a paint-by-numbers app I use. I had assumed it was generated by the app but I now know differently.
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@robstimson4234
7 months ago
This painting hung above the fireplace in my parents VT home. lt actually still hangs there. My folks are gone. My brother purchased their house. To this day l think it hung there because it mimicked what winter looked like surrounding the home. There were no discussions about the details of the painting when l was there.
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@jackdaniels2905
7 months ago
The hunters' spears also form a cross.
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@GenaMatogen
7 months ago
I never noticed that fire on that pucture
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@YorkArt86
7 months ago
Thanks for your interesting video. One minor error - the hunter's couldn't possibly have any Quail because they migrate to Africa for the winter. Grey Partridge, on the other hand, are resident (and has more meat!).
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@kterrell2002
7 months ago
I would very much like to hear your comments on other Bruegel paintings, many of which I have had hanging on my walls for years - unaware there was any hidden meanings in any of them. I just liked them!
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@franchino04
8 days ago
please explain us ALL Breuegels paintings! thank you so much..
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@caroliensche13
2 months ago
I wouldnt ever come to the idea this thing is a bird trap. It is a rectangle, with a streak and some blurry dots.
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@JamesKrell-o3o
7 months ago
If you go to Belgium you will find a good number of paintings similar to this. Flanders is flat and the fact that Bruegel went to great lengths to put hidden meanings in his paintings makes me wonder if there is more to the mountains than meets the eye. If you are interested in paintings with social moment or hidden meanings look at the British artist Hogarth.
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@timurstukin5079
7 months ago
There are no mountains in North Flanders.
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@emdxemdx
7 months ago
"Children’s games" was a big part of my childhood, as we had a big reproduction of it hanging in the dining room for years… :)
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@AlexanderMcCallum-n8r
7 months ago (edited)
I've had a companion painting this in my wall for years and I've always known it's full of symbolism it's actually too he nativity the mountain may be Zuin
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@muttsareus
7 months ago
If the AMOC shuts down, there will be plenty of opportunities in Europe for skating on canals, ponds, and rivers, and for painting scenes like this. Also, for going hungry. So, from a certain point of view, the whole scene is a forboding symbol.
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@Sunday_fits
7 months ago
Literally my AP art history class
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@anvilranch1888
7 months ago
It’s a chimney fire, which is common enough today, let alone then. It could burn down the house if it breaches the chimney and is something to be acted upon quickly.
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@marlobreding7402
7 months ago
Flue fire, very dangerous. I've experienced it. Fortunately I was able to choke it down by first closing the air intake mine closed completely, also closing the flue damper. I bought a good chimney brush the next day.
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@ozymandiasultor9480
7 months ago
I saw this painting for the first time in the movie Solaris by Tarkovsky.
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@charlesward8196
7 months ago (edited)
We had a chimney fire once in a 12” square flue. It sounded like a rocked launch, and thins sheets of creosote were spalling off of the flue tiles and clinking down into the fireplace. We got it put out in under 30 seconds but it was scary while it lasted.
I am not sure that is Northern Flanders, which is a coastal plain, because there looks to be the Alps in the back right side of the image. OOPS! You addressed that issue at the end.
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@ActualLiteralKyle
7 months ago
Would kill to see videos on the rest, especially gloomy day and the harvesters
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@mitsunori222000
7 months ago
Interesting. A personal rather innocent analysis.
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@karisuomenniemi9177
7 months ago
Yes, please!
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@luminyam6145
7 months ago
;;;
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@lapland123
3 months ago
A lot of mountains in flat Flanders, rather rocky aswel.
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@phubblewubbphubblewubb
7 months ago
I've always thought those hunters look malevolent they're heading straight toward the children playing on the ice.....but then overthinking is a common human condition!!
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@Rhubarbandcustard
7 months ago
When I heard Flanders’s I immediately thought of the poem ‘In Flanders’s Fields’ - a war poem written by John McCrae during the 1st world war. That’s where the symbol of the Poppy flower comes first the war dead comes from.
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@AlfredHornungThylacineCellist
7 months ago
There is also the way the spears cross over to give a graphic implication the lead hunter is carrying a cross - and the name of the inn translates to "The Golden Deer".
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@letranger5
7 months ago
not one word about Art
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@panthercreek60
7 months ago
I'm not sure that it alters the symbolisms of the piece, but that appears to be a chimney fire rather than a house fire. An accumulation of sap or rosen in a chimney can catch fire if the flue isn't kept clean. It's often caused by burning too much evergreen wood in the fireplace.
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@StevenTorrey
7 months ago
Breugel is pronounced {Broi gul} with emphasis on the first syllable.
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@Glenwald
7 months ago (edited)
Very cool. I never realized this was set during the little ice age. The little ice age caused hardship globally. Interestingly, it was preceded by the medieval warm period which had far warmer temperatures than today and instead of being a climate catastrophe, as we're led to believe we're facing today if we don't stop emitting CO2, was a period of great growth and flourishing.
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@_Just_Another_Guy
7 months ago
I only knew about this painting thanks to Animal Crossing.
The fake version had the guy between the trees removed.
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@themenna007
7 months ago
My dad used this image for one of his chamber music album covers!
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@kurzackd
7 months ago (edited)
09:41 -- that "mountain" -- I actually DO SEE something ... Namely - : - a HOODED EXECUTIONER, with ax in hand , waiting to swoop on this village's soon-to-be extinguished life. :P
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@DanielleKingdjdinosaur
7 months ago
i know this painting i used to see a print of it all the ime
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@arcshinus7238
6 months ago
Peter surely would be amused by this analysis.
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@nickthurlow4456
7 months ago
Also check out Hieronymus Bosch's artwork very similar , well in my small mind
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@cenaalan5825
7 months ago
Just noticed one interesting detail! Draw a line through that house which is burning there far a way and through bonfire in a front (beside hunters)! Now we have two axis of plus and minus! For bonfires fire is + signed for a house - signed! But for hunters mood is - but for people on ice + So painting is very structured! It shows that success and failure are neighbors and everywhere is some duality. Ponds are separated into two parts (actually for! but consider them as pairs). And bridge have two arch. I haven't investigated what it means but I'm pretty sure that it has some meaning. Just draw a line through and consider where is + and -
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@bjturon
7 months ago
Yes on other Paintings ;
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@raymcbride4535
7 months ago
Just a point of correction, it isn’t a house fire, it’s a chimney fire. This might tie in to your comment about the mini ice age. Constantly burning wood in a hearth would lead to a build up of creosote in the flue which is dangerous as it can ignite, if not swept out.
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@carlwhite4197
7 months ago
Wow! This video shot up to almost a million viewers in 2 weeks!
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@Nellyontheland
7 months ago
Intresting observations. Very intresting. However, I have put my interpretations below.
Not spears, "smacking sticks" to route out the game. Being peasants the deer was off limits.
Not a lake but "pen ponds" for breading freshwater fish to compete with...
The town is close to a real lake in the very background, but the town size by this body of water is most likely a sea faring town. This gives more credence to the small town below being a dying villlage. You dont burn wet wood, hence the creosote burning in the chimney. But the dying town also has been pollarding trees in its own backyards, indicating that the wood is running out... and being burned early before its dry.
Also, the hole in the pond is basically fishing for food that should be harvested to sell, not eat.
There is no other chimneys being used... in winter.
I believe it depicts a dying arena. Kids are kids of course and old men dont care (on the ponds) but I believe the hunters, who are avoiding the inn to eat, are returning home to simply continue the hard winter.
In my view.
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@markforcyth2445
7 months ago
Bruegel's painting stars in the film Melancholia.
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@be.t.gooood
7 months ago
It looks like the artwork on Felice BrotherS album from Dreams To Dust
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@Yora21
7 months ago
Flames coming out of the chimney is a result of not having the chimney properly swept. Uncombusted carbon from soot builds up in the chimney, and under the right conditions can catch fire. And the updraft from the chimney would make it quite a fierce blast.
It's an accident caused by negligent lack of maintenance. I wonder if there's a symbolic intention behind that too.
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@Arkturbettel
7 months ago
I always wondered, how he likes mountains in his paintings, despite of the fact, that Holland doesn't have any)
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@timothymallon
7 months ago
I notice even more going on, in this painting. For instance, what are they burning under the crooked sign? Looks like their furniture. Then, in the lower right corner, the mill wheel is frozen over, preventing any grain or wood from being processed. Then there's the person on the bridge, next to the mill. They're walking away with unprocessed goods. On the ice, there's at least 2 people who have fallen. One looks like a lump and the other looks like they fell face first. Also on the ice is a hole. At first I would think it was for ice fishing, but its location to the others who are playing nearby indicates to me that someone may have just fallen in.
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@visualvirtue9640
7 months ago
Yes
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@neclark08
7 months ago
...I have two observational 'challenges' about her/your interpretations of two components in our host's 'Symbol-decerning' dissection of this work:
First involves the column of flame shooting skyward from the chimney of that rather large (standing alone?) house in the right middle-far distance of the painting - which she (you) presume to mean that the entire structure generally "On Fire" is refuted by the combined lack of expected smoke billowing from any openings in the building's walls (not just the few windows & single visible door, but particularly through gaps between (thatched) roofs & adjacent walls, simply because it would be near- imposslibe to keep such gaps sealed as the roofing material shifted and settled. I also note that the snow layer across the (visible) surfaces of the roof is Uniforn...not thinned- or melted-through by engulfing flames within. To me, this suggests that the artist is cautioning against the 'voluptuous' or 'gluttonous' burning of too much fuel, too rapidly (as 'Conspicuous Consumption' of wealth when other towns-folk suffer Want).
The other oddity is the dark flying creature with unnaturally long, skinny wings and a long & narrow 'snake-like' (or dragon-like) tail...a Flying Dragon perhaps dispatched by A Higher- (or Lower) Power.
I'd be interested in your thoughts on those different (perhaps over-lapping) 'Moral Messages..?
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@Pavelk-j2w
7 months ago
It was only when I saw original painting in museum in Vienna when I notice the fire from chimney and 2 other men with long ladder , obviously hurrying to help firefighters
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@meimei8718
7 months ago
Interesting
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@robertwilloughby8050
7 months ago (edited)
There's a Bruegel that I call "The Boiling Pot of Mustard" which is basically a Southern Dutch Kermesse at the complete breakdown of all decorum. That one is very worthy of analysis. There's also Len Lye, the famous animator, and his experiment in traditional art in a very non traditional way, which is basically Len dangling out of an early helicopter to take a photograph of a cruise ship from above, which was a b/w photograph, then Len trying to remember it all in colour. It's a brilliant work.
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@Okterp407
7 months ago
The dogs aren't disappointed, they're tired. They don't know that a fox and quail are a disappointment. They ran the quarry.
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@Ann208B
7 months ago
I love his paintings. But his name is Broygel not Broogel;
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@notone4540
7 months ago
Do the other paintings too
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@Fitness4London
7 months ago (edited)
The boy on the far right on the busier skaters' frozen lake is Damien from the Omen, making his first appearance on earth. Shortly after this scene in the painting the ice cracked and everyone was drowned except for Damien. The crows all danced around him in glee.
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@EverleaJournal
7 months ago
Loved the information you shared — it brought me right back to my old art classes. And your narration style made it even more enjoyable. New subscriber here!
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@ORLY911
7 months ago
The chimney fire might not even be unexpected for the villagers, if it's a church in an unusually long and cold winter, they probably just have men at the ready to clear a chimney fire since it's being used 24/7 to keep people warm. I think it's saying something about adapting to hard times.
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@susanlakefish8789
6 months ago
Have you read W. H. Auden’s poem Musee de Beau Arts.? It refers to the symbolism in Bruegel ‘s painting of of the Fall of Icarus.
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@fabricemoore
7 months ago
Would love to see an analysis of "the harvesters" in the same sery : do you think that the place depicted (the harvesters is said to be painted near Geneva Switzerland) has a meaning ?
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@brian63miata
7 months ago
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the dog pooping. That’s gotta mean something too right? ;
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@michaelmalone9062
7 months ago
The house with the men climbing ladders onto the roof looks like a chimney fire.
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@liberatedwoman
7 months ago
I did a term presentation on this artist. I also learned that in many 16th century countries artists used certain animals as metaphors for corrupt politicians.
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@gerbre1
7 months ago
There are no high mountains in Northern Flanders. Those can only be found in the Alps.
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@geoffyoung3874
7 months ago
I have allways thought that the hunters were walking towards the edge of a big drop.
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@utoobia
7 months ago
Whoa! A NATURAL climate event. I didn’t know those were even real!
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@jeanah685
7 months ago
Although I can agree with some of the symbolism in this painting. I think you had to accomplish a lot of stretching and and make a lot of assumptions for a few of them.
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@UtubeH8tr
7 months ago
A noble artist pretending to be a peasant is quite strange.
Would make for a wonderful story.
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@marcvpraet
7 months ago
Probably not the first one to mention this: Brueghel was not a Dutch but a Flemish master from Brabant (but probably born in or around Breda in what is now the Netherlands and North Brabant). He became a master in the guilt of St. Luke in Antwerp which was in the Spain occupied catholic part of the “low lands”. He is one of the most renowned masters of the Flemish renaissance.
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@arcticflower7223
7 months ago
They don't look that sad at first glance...
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@sheilaathay2034
7 months ago
He's good
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@hardbassDJ0500
5 months ago
Its a chimney fire, common when using pine as firewood.
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@grkobylka
7 months ago
It's a happy little mountain
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@TheLimbReaper
7 months ago
That is actually Mount Crumpet and below is Whoville. This surely must be the inspiration for Dr. Seuss.
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@JinGer_isa_witch
7 months ago
You might be right, but all I see on the pound is 43, I may have missed a few counts. Just counted once over. It caught my interest cuz I'm like,. Oh snaps. Paused at. 00:45.
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@hollykennedy-z1k
7 months ago
Chimney's on fire
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@pietervanleeuwen8953
6 months ago
Thanks for the video. The spelling is Breugel ;
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@Supergeologist
5 months ago
Believe it or not this picture was painted during the same year my house was built.
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@H.J.U.49
7 months ago
I'm surprised that Pieter Bruegel didn't paint a single house in that winter scene that has smoke coming from its chimney. Except for the one that looks like it's on fire from the roof? It's obviously extremely cold outside.
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@Alpemomi
7 months ago
Please do!
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@thomasqqcouperji4491
7 months ago
Chimney fires are very dynamic very noisy also cracks the chimney so very expensive to fix
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@peterjanvanbijnen226
7 months ago
yes
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@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied
3 months ago (edited)
Pronounced “Broy-gull” his work was anything but whimsical - it depicted the harshness of reality for the impoverished lower classes, which embodied the bulk of the population. A refreshing change at the time.
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@madjic-uc8hf
7 months ago
Are there places in flanders where you can have thoses sharp hills looking like mountains ? I thought it was the "flat land" ?
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@;;;;-;;
6 months ago
Interesting! I thought maybe he was trying to show they didn't have a good hunt because they weren't taking care of that sign
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@bonnielucas3244
5 months ago
It's a wonderful painting anyway
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@onbedoeldekut1515
7 months ago
It's a dragon, not a magpie.
Bruegel knew how to draw magpies.
Magpie tails 'spatulate' horizontally, they don't taper to a long point.
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@topiuusi-seppa5277
7 months ago
The fire from the chimney isn't necessarily even an accident, nor a problem. It's a chimney/soot fire. It can happen by itself accidentally and it CAN be very dangerous, because the heat gets so high the chimney may actually crack and let fire and smoke inside the house. But it's also done on purpose to clean a chimney when the chimney gets especially full of soot and tar from burning wood without enough air. I've had to have our chimney cleaned like this on purpose, because I didn't know how to use the old wood burning boiler properly. Looks and sounds scary, but totally safe as long as it's done by people who know what they're doing. At least in Finland you need a chimney sweep and a fire truck with crew present to do it legally.
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@samonitus
7 months ago
Winters like that in the Netherlands are no more.
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@unchattycosmo
7 months ago
The magpie in the picture has a straight tail but in reality the magpie flies with a fanned tail to maintain balance. Bruegel must have known this. Therefore this represents an idea - possibly decline, confusion or death or all three. Thus it represents the whole picture.
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@theophrastus3.056
7 months ago
Not a “house fire”, but rather a chimney fire. Even today a creosote build up in a wood burning chimney or stove can create this. Usually caused by inattention, blockages or improper fuel.
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@roberttaylor3594
7 months ago
9:50 that looks like Mt. Crumpet…
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@janeclark1881
7 months ago
Please analyse the other paintings.
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@PhilipBowde
7 months ago
The spears could be, could be a reference to the spanish who attempted to proselytise them through the violence perpetrated by the spanish under the duke of alba.
But they didn't buckle.
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@Velthur
7 months ago
What is really surprising for a man from Flanders like me is the mountains in the backgroung. There is no such mountains here.
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@BryaninNI
7 months ago (edited)
Please more, I know little of art but appreciate it greatly. Your unique description of the piece had me enthralled. I’m in my late sixties and you have left me wanting more. Please continue to give us insight into these great works of art. ;
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@user-s2h2s
7 months ago (edited)
No, it doesn't look like a "simple winter scene." Not even at first glance. This painting has always struck me, since I was a child, as dark and ominous. Almost all of Bruegel's paintings have struck (and still strike) me this way. I have never been able to see this as a simple winter scene. I don't see how that's possible.
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@nickyjames1132
7 months ago (edited)
Simple explanation is this was painted during what is referred to as “the little ice age”, Britain and Europe was frozen solid for a few years and life became very tough
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@leagarner3675
7 months ago (edited)
Okay I googled it, and yes spears are a legitimate deer hunting tool. In fact in the US, Nebraska: Recognizes spears as a legal deer hunting weapon.
However I personally don't know of any deer hunters who take dogs with them. Seems like it would scare the deer away.
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@petervenema1443
7 months ago
Strangely enough - there are mountains to the right in the painting so the painter had obviously travelled away from his native area - ( not a very common event ) or was aware of mountains from other illustrations- as the lowlands of Holland and Belgium do not have any mountains - and barely any hills !!
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@ericrobinson8078
5 months ago
Peter Bugal!!!
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@Fozcine
7 months ago
That looks like a chimney fire. Serious, but not yet a house fire. Happens when soot builds up in the chimney and catches fire. Hence the need for chimney sweeps.
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@Lumpyjohn1
7 months ago
Everything was the 'devil' back then (and to many today) It just reminds us humans how simpleminded we truly are. Great interpretation tho.
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@discodavid26
7 months ago
Do we have any info on the sixth painting off this set? And how it meant its demise/loss?
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@DamienThimons-rv1wj
6 months ago
I would have sworn that for A couple of minutes I heard music from Ghouls N Ghosts playing Ever so softly in the background.
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@TheReaper569
5 months ago
This is a very speculative interpretation with wild suggestions but little information.
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@LilRebelYell
7 months ago
I would that that its not the house on fire but the chimney on fire, which is the center of the household.
Chimney fires would be a common event as cresote is buit up on the i side of the chimney and occasionally catches fire.
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@mournblade1066
7 months ago
3:15 Looks like the dude curled up in the fetal position on the ice got hit in the 'nads.
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@TaliaMellifera
7 months ago
Many special details have a meaning, but the mountains, dis-placed in Flandria, they don't, however :P
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@DionysisKarantzis
6 months ago
Perhaps the steep snow covered mountains hide an impending avalanche!
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@John-l2d6z
7 months ago
That wasn't hockey being shown in this work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but rather kolf or colf, a precursor of modern golf and ice hockey. Depictions of the game being played appear in Dutch and Flemish paintings of the day: I recall seeing one in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario whose blurb posted beside the painting had mentioned kolf as the sport being depicted, but I can't recall the artist's name.
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@philthycat1408
7 months ago
Just that the major town and castle are in the avalanche zone.
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@tomoverton2138
7 months ago
I’m interested in the somewhat furtive figure of the man holding the tabletop to the left of the fire.
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@SnowWhite717_
3 months ago
Not to mention the hunters spears are all pointing towards the crooked sign too… ;
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@jlv-77
6 months ago
Danger lurks. So… Triumph of Death v 0.8?
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@Mattijjah85
7 months ago
Fot the mountains: they're so steep and snowy that deadly avalanche can be triggered at any time...
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@Yora21
7 months ago
Me for the whole first four minutes: "Yeah, but can be please mention the dragon now!"
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@jonmaloy6783
7 months ago
A chimney fire isn't the same as a house fire, at least not if it can be put down quickly enough. The trick isn't to pour in water, but coarse salt.
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@nasiaking
7 months ago
I just about to nention the mouhtain uhtill near the end the narator explained it as additional since in Flanders there is no miuntain.
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@sonicweaver
7 months ago (edited)
What does the bottom left dog taking a dump mean?
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@davidwolcott1276
7 months ago
It's a chimney fire at this stage, not a house fire, very dangerous because all the water is frozen. They need to climb up on the roof to block it off. The message seems to be the drama behind the scene of frivolity, caused by the same thing (the cold). And that doesn't look like a magpie, judging by the length of the tail compared to the body and the shape of the wings.
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@bruceplenderleith838
7 months ago
one for sorrow
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@Bruno-k8p5s
7 months ago
It looks like three of them are playing something that looks like hockey. But when I checked into the origins of hockey, there was no mention that went this far back. His Painting may change history.; at least of hockey
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@laurenth7187
7 months ago (edited)
The only fact that matters here is that this painting occurs in 2 movies, Dans la ville blanche, 1983 with Bruno Ganz, and more important in Melancholia, 2011. In this movie it stands for western civilisation it self, nothing more decisive can be said. This is... A symbol of civilisation.
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@NalaRichenbach
7 months ago
I see cruelty, fun, disappointment and death. It's an awful scene and not something I would hang on any wall in my house. It's depressing to look at.
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@ericwieboldt7042
5 months ago
I think its hilarious the way people over analyze paintings;
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@sirspikey
7 months ago
interesting
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@willp6723
7 months ago
Read the books momenticon and simul by Andrew Caldecott. A large part of these occur in this painting. Both excellent books
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@lauriemcfadden4646
7 months ago
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@marcharrison1970
7 months ago
Those mountains aren't typical of northern Flanders.
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@dudo3000
7 months ago
What bird trap? All I see is a CCTV camera )))
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@Nyllsor
7 months ago
I wonder about that big cart going the same way down on the road.
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@puravidadew7031
7 months ago (edited)
The speakers are more likely to be for hunting boars. And since it is the little ice age, it’s unlikely that the ice is going to break.
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@rossjohnson1872
7 months ago
Liberal arts courses at colleges should include a deep study of symbology, so crucial for so many areas.
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@solerso68
7 months ago
its a chimney fire..Probably a common event back then
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@daniellec2172
7 months ago
I always thought this was less a depiction of pure negativity but rather one of resilience and both good and bad life events. Never noticed the chimney on fire! And also did not realize the symbolism of the birds. I have a poster of this hanging behind me which is amazing because now I can endlessly scrutinize it haha.
I'm curious about what's going on with the fire in the foreground, under the sign - it seems to be blowing a lot in a fierce wind, and the man seems to be moving away a table? Or is he bringing it to the fire? It looks like they're burning hay - was that typical? Like they're using it as tinder? Or is that a sign they were having trouble finding wood to burn? There's a person in the right foreground down by the river who appears to either be breaking twigs off a tree, or trying to slingshot one of the birds. Maybe I'm reading way too much into things now.
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@EmilyTienne
7 months ago (edited)
Bruegel from his grave: I learn so much from modern art critics. ;
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@Paul-ou1rx
7 months ago
I always figured the hunters were from a less prosperous village and had turned to cannibalism.
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@johnfinn7455
7 months ago
There are a lot of hidden symbolism and Easter eggs. Isn’t that dog bottom left going poop? There are people curling. What’s up with those people building a bon fire two feet from the house. The largest mountain in the upper right of the painting doesn’t fit in. The perspective is a little off. If some of the people in the most distant places shows people that if you brought them close, at that scale those people would be like 12 feet tall. It’s a great painting. It’s almost a comic book style in various places on the painting.
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@GaikotsuSenpai
7 months ago
I prefer Bosch but this was nice
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@patrickstjean7646
7 months ago (edited)
Now, whenever you have a shot of Jagermeister, you will look at the label and remember the legend of St Hubertus
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@RobertKnapp-n6q
7 months ago
The frozen waterwheel bottom right. No milling getting done either. Everybody’s hungry
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@Kilkenny1923
7 months ago
At least there are no "happy little trees."
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@jamesblossom-f9m
7 months ago
The broken sign is being replaced by a new one that is in the process of being painted. The new sign is a slightly different shape with a curved top.
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@spotontheroad1
7 months ago
And a frozen mill wheel meaning no grinding of wheat.
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@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey
7 months ago (edited)
The chimney fire was probably caused by jackdaws making a new nest in the flue during the night. During my childhood and youth we had a number of chimney fires in our almost permanently used chimney. The house was not on fire.
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@aacvieira
7 months ago
That Mountain seams the Everest.
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@Bandanko
5 months ago
you dont hunt deer with a spear, you hunt boar with a spear... and those hunters just look tired, because hunting in the snow is SO SO SO damn tiring
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@antonlavrentiev5249
7 months ago
I was with Bruegel when he was painting this. The sign on the pub is half-torn because dimwit boy was throwing rocks in it. Until Hans the owner didn't smack him.
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@kevinlamitie8210
7 months ago
THERE IS A CONSPIRACY ABOUT A TAPESTRY OF THE PIED PIPER AND THERE'S A STAG IN IT AND COME TO FIND OUT THERE WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WERE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN
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@JariPappila-c8w
7 months ago
Why are the people below the crooked sign burning a bonfire right next to house entrance? ;
They're burning bunches of straw as if to produce smoke. A man is carrying a three legged table from the house. The door is open and so is a window - yet it's cold winter. And wind is blowing the flames and smoke towards the house apparently on purpose.
Are they doing some kind of cleansing ritual by smoking the house? Has someone died in that house? Did that table belong to the dead person?
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@coltharwood494
2 months ago
Not a house fire but a flue fire. Very common with wood or coal as heat.
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@derrickstorm6976
6 months ago
Bruegel really said Winter is coming
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@jesustopete9807
7 months ago
Reminds me of the films: solaris and melancholia…
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@jamestoneythefifth7074
6 months ago
analyze all of them!
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@b1laxson
7 months ago
Plot Twist: There was a fourth hunter but they killed him "in a bizarre hunting accident".
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@johnwright9372
5 months ago
The hunters are returning empty handed, the long spears suggest they were hunting wild boar rather than deer. The house isn't on fire, its chimney is.
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@cynicalaries6201
7 months ago
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@Chris-zh4ih
5 months ago
Reminds me of where's Waldo.. I know .. sophomoric I am..
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@Taracinablue
7 months ago
Huh. Interesting. Any insight on the poor fellow who appears to be faceplanted on the second lake?
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@64BBernard
7 months ago
It looks like the people in the town will be facing starvation, but they don't know it yet.
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@Texasgoat3
7 months ago
How did the hunters get down from that hill? Looks like a cliff ahead. How big are these portraits?
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@predicationst405cp
7 months ago
I suspect there are way more hidden messages in this painting...
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@juliefoucart7090
7 months ago
It is actually a painting of Megev France. It is now ski village in the French Alps.
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@jollyrodgers7272
6 months ago
I thought they looked cold, not 'embarrassed'. That's a Chimney Fire - when creosote builds up in the chimney and catches fire, which can be very dangerous. BTW, Northern Flanders (nor The Netherlands, Western Germanic regions, etc.) don't have rocky alpine peaks like Switzerland.
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@peterifaction
7 months ago
Please comment on more paintings for us. It’s fascinating!
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@mybachhertzbaud3074
7 months ago
Anywhere there is life, death always follows.;
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@seble
7 months ago
Where in the Netherlands you have rocky mountains?
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@gpurger
7 months ago
Again my opinion is that only one person knows what is meant by the picture. If you look hard enough you can see all sorts everywhere. You may be right and for me I don't care. It's a nice picture.
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@monkmchorning
7 months ago
More like several disconnected dangerous realities.
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@chubeye1187
7 months ago (edited)
Quail are a summer visitor to Europe
It looks like a chimney fire, a problem with burning wood in an open hearth
Flanders highest point is less than 300m
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@charlessomerville3031
5 months ago
I always thought that hockey was a 19th century thing. Apparently it goes way farther back into the 16th century , at least
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@gerardmololul4515
6 months ago
May be an analyse a Gloomy Day?
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@rwwr8170
7 months ago
Maybe it's just a painting of every day life with absolutely no religious symbolism whatsoever
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@valbonkapaza5103
6 months ago
"little ice age" but "ice can break anytime" yeah...right.
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@matsv201
7 months ago
5:22
Its not a lake, its a dam. And it could not crack at any second. It been frozeon for days if not weeks, and its clearly still below zero
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@KalaPatata
7 months ago
Spears were also used for wild boar hunting
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@wijtzeheinvanderveen
7 months ago
Northern Flanders does’t have mountains like that.
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@anjou157
7 months ago (edited)
That doesn't look like a magpie to me, but it reminds me of an ancient Chinese poem (1st century BC, by Anon;)...the final lines are: ' At a thousand gates and ten thousand doors the fish-shaped keys turn;
Round the Palace and up by the Castle, the crows and the magpies are flying. '.
There's no indication to me, that the magpies were harbingers of doom. There is also a line about a water-clock. The title of this wonderful poem is The Cock crow Song. Translated by Arthur Waley, who was a famous, dedicated translator of Eastern literature, especially poems. ;
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@williammoses6460
7 months ago
You catch and eat what you can. Spears are for larger animals. I couldn’t see if the spears had boar-guards on them to keep a wounded pig from sliding down the shaft and attacking the hunter. They do not look happy.
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@jonntischnabel
6 months ago
I don't think there are any large craggy mountains in northern Flanders! ; One of the flattest places I've ever been.
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@skpt516
7 months ago
The idea the frozen lake could crack at any moment doesn't seem plausible. This is part of his series of paintings by Bruegel depicting different parts of the year and this is December/January. And this was painted during the time know as The Little Ice Age. With that in mind this is likely when the ice of the frozen lake is the thickest.
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@jckper3626
6 months ago
$2.00
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@leslieclipp9303
7 months ago
And the hunters are advancing toward the edge of a cliff
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@reynardus1359
7 months ago
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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@daviddavids2884
7 months ago
why is the fire below the crooked sign is so WEIRD.
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@TheParadoxDestroyer
7 months ago
Playing Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the background, music associated with a bountiful life, only adds to the irony.
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@iamtoothewalrus
1 month ago
Nice pun: "...navigate such a dangerous landscape?"
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@rftn666
7 months ago
I'll just add, that now in Netherlands there is no chance for frozen lake at all.
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@nightrider6136
7 months ago
My interpretation is this: whatever the problem (famine, bad times, cold season, burning houses) people will keep on doing what they like, merrily having fun and ignoring anyone else's misfortune.
Some bitter criticism of people's happy-go-lucky nature.
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@bulow453
5 months ago
It looks more like a chimney fire rather than a house fire.
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@tomasznojemsky792
7 months ago
skating and Ice hockey in 1565? surprising
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@frankupton5821
7 months ago
I don't think the house is on fire, yet. The chimney is on fire and the villagers are trying to pull thatch off the roof before the sparks from the chimney set it alight. If they succeed, the householder will have a hole in their roof but they will still have a house.
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@BucketClinger
7 months ago
I thought you were going to say this was a portrait of summer.
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@ratanashifu
7 months ago (edited)
Not Dutch renaissance but Flemish renaissance! And the house fire is what we call a chimney fire caused by a chimney not well cleaned before the winter sets in. It still happens a lot in those houses that are heated with wood stoves.
And then when you speak about the bird-trap I see a rather common food shelter for those same birds. Whatever food was spread out for birds could not be buried under the snow. So it's a symbol of caring for other beings even when in winter one had to live on bush-meat and a meager portion of boiled grains such as rye and wheat with a sprinkle of cabbage.
And furthermore the stand-off between Catholics and Protestants took place in the northern half of the then still united Belgium and the Netherlands. Whatever Belgium had and has of Protestantism is very small and didn't have to hide.
The people left at the inn where they light the fire are just making preparations for the meal the hope the skaters will come and take with them.
So you might read the painting as a symbol of village harmony despite the fatigued hunters: villagers having fun on the ice; neighbours helping to put out a chimney fire; people caring for the bids in a harsh winter. Breughel didn't put heavy symbolism in his painting; he painted everyday life in wintertime. Nothing more.
If Breughel sought to contrast this or that, he contrasted the Eastern and Southern hilly part of the country where even the gentry with their hunting right with regard to larger animals had a hard time, with the Northern and Western part where Brueghel's villages would grow into prosperous town.
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@saneman751
5 months ago
Also, the color of the ice indicates that the body of ice is thin and not scatable. People on thin ice.
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@beowulf1312
7 months ago
Please analyse the others.
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@SpotterDeer
7 months ago
4:53 one spear point looks broken off
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@artemmalkov7398
7 months ago
Another interesting detail in this picture is mountains on the background. If you don't think about it, at first it looks okay. But then ... wait...we are in the Netherlands. Literally LOW lands. What are the mountains there? As far as I know, most scholars believe that Breigel was super impressed by Alps when he travelled to Italy and back through them. And being so impressed, he started to add "motives" of Alps in his pictures even though it is more about Netherlands
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@fk-hi6gs
7 months ago
The house is luckily not on fire yet. This is called a chimney fire, caused by firing wood that creates a lot of tar residue in the chimney, like oak as an example. Smoldering fires or damp wood can also be the cause. Burning different typ of trees is good, especially Asp, since it it burning with a higher temperature and burns the tar in the process, instead of accumulating in the chimney.
A chimney fire can be scary and can make the chimney explode.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but I have lived in Nordic countries for a long time, where firing is an art form :)
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@QnA22
7 months ago (edited)
Saint-Eustachius and Saint Hubertus are often mistaken. This is Sint-Eustachius though according to the Bruegel museum page.
I'm not sure this is the Flanders/Dutch landscape. I mean Bruegel lived in Flanders in Antwerp as well as Brussel. No mountain peaks to be found in these areas. You'd need to go to the French speaking areas of Wallonia for that in the Ardennes.
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@FransDeMeerleer
6 months ago
Bruegel is a Flemish (from Flanders) painter, not Dutch (from Holland = today two provinces in the Netherlands). His paintings show hundreds of sayings, proverbs, idioms, difficult to translate because of the rhymes.
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@ThePortChicagoWitness
7 months ago
after the end of the commentary to hear that the mountains that are added to the picture have no symbolic meaning seems peculiar
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@gromotion933
7 months ago
The tracks are not from a rabit. Maybe roe dear but more likely a squirel.
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@NigelIncubatorJones
7 months ago
The mountains kind of resemble hands, palms together in a praying position.
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@GggGgg-ek3dw
7 months ago
there no mountains in flanders , isnt it ? might be different location depicted
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@Mikexception
7 months ago (edited)
What hits me is that picture shows place where all live at feets of a mountain and all these peole are busy in completly different ways - some fight fire, some unsuccesfully hunt for food to eat - even their dogs are starving, , some have broken not repaired homes some hope to catch bird. nad largest group skating and playing with no reflection about them - it represents division of this society, probably in connection to division in religion which as we now know was resaon of domestic clashes in 16 century Europe . .
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@androidbox3571
7 months ago
The house is not on fire, the chimney is on fire due to carbon build up, a comon occurance with fireplaces and chimneys.
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@mikhalsinelnikoff6775
7 months ago
OK make analysis of the others pictures of brugel
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@PaleoCon2008
7 months ago
If you have ever trudged through knee-high snow in less than adequate clothing and engaged in vigorous activity like hunting it would be no surprise that the returning party would be exhausted. It is slightly more curious to me that a Dutch painter would include soaring, rugged mountains in his background.
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@HOBBITSODYSSEY
7 months ago
Spears were used to hunt wild boar , not dear, "ice that can crack at any moment" maybe during late Spring , not during Winter, its like you are forcibly looking for meaning were sometimes meaning its not there.
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@zenlettering
7 months ago
this is my teacher analyzing blue curtains
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@kiereluurs1243
7 months ago
Even that hill is made up.
Vlaanderen is quite flat.
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@romcallis
6 months ago
I see a correlation between the many Dutch paintings featuring skating going back to the 1500s and the current day where the Dutch dominate speed skating. Just watch the Olympics and you’ll see. Starts Feb 6
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@Druidusse22
6 months ago
There are no mountains in Flanders ??
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@ppn194
7 months ago
I wonder how they knew anything about ice hockey at that time...
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@EVIL_THOUGHTS
7 months ago
The sign hanging just shows it's the hunters house burning...it's called FATALITAS.
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@johnmcnassor1223
7 months ago
Known also for use von Trier put to it at the beginning of ‘Melancholia.’ Disaster is always on the horizon!-)
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@fritzthecat0815
7 months ago
Which is the music that is playing in this video?
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@burakozc3079
7 months ago
What about that flying "Rhamphorhynchus"?
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@Covid_Daperfield
7 months ago
It’s like a White Lotus intro
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@rickyredd3131
6 months ago
Or maybe he painted what he saw. The hanging sign, bird trap, bunny prints... And by the way what you are calling a house fire is actually a chimney fire. Common when you heat with wood if you don't clean the creosote from your chimney. If not put out it can burn your house down though.
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@emilybentz1020
6 months ago (edited)
MY THOUGHTS AND STUFF AND TRYING TO FIND SOME OTHER SYMBOLISM:
As probably everyone knows that a group of crows is called a Murder. So that could maybe mean that the house fire was not an accident. And crows and magpies will also team up with wolves and lead them to food, so the choice of the birds could mean that this town is about to be “Thrown to the wolves” or something. But birds do resemble human spirits in some cultures, I don’t know if magpies represent the devil though I’ll have to look that up, not that I think you’re wrong, just that I want to confirm lol.
The fox being the only thing the hunters caught could be a symbol that food is running low.
I don’t know what other ideas I have so uhm yeah
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@TheWanderingFinnegan
7 months ago
Why not more details on the sixth painting?
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@Erling01
7 months ago
Fun fact: "The Elder" himself died when he was between 39 and 44 years old. The portrait in 0:52 was drawn four years before his death, making him between 35 and 40 years old.
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@hutch440
7 months ago
No mountains in the Flanders
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@annmarienoone9879
7 months ago
Where is this? The mountains seem to be out of place.
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@Bl_musica_viaggi
7 months ago
Soo the deer that excaped from them was representing a missed conversion maybe (like the pending inn sign)? So their house(their actual faith maybe) Is on flames (representing evil) but they are going anyway like the birds in the trap? All of this remaining ambiguos about what should be the real faith like you said?
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@danielloder1461
7 months ago
Thats not a house fire, yet. Its a chimney fire ;. Its where carbon and creasote have built up on the inside of the chimney and caught fire. A dangerous situation. Chimneys need to be cleaned. Hence chimney sweeps.
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@kadmii
7 months ago
what was the subject of the 6th (lost) painting?
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@Dan-The-Judge
7 months ago
sometimes a painting is just a painting.
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@karimmoukaddem4491
7 months ago (edited)
Thanks for the analysis but I thought Northern Flanders was flat whilst this painting depicts a mountainous area so why put it there?
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@coralynnremning9083
7 months ago
When I was a kid I always found this painting so uncanny and made me uncomfortable but I couldn't understand why.
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@richardleveille3254
7 months ago
Amazing that the Dutch were ice skating, playing hockey, and curling this far back!
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@martinhovorka5446
7 months ago
I can enjoy Bruegel's paintings even without similar silly speculations . . .
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@jimcy1319
7 months ago
Are there any records of the missing sixth painting.
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@JH-lo9ut
3 months ago
Anyone who wants to debate why curling should be in the Winter Olympics should take a look at this painting.
The people are clearly playing curling on the ice, five hundred years ago.
Bruegel would not have painted this into the scene, had it not been a well-etablished game at the time. It is such a small detail, and if you didn't know, it would be very difficult to figure out what was going on.
I think it is a wonderful detail of people's lives back then. They enjoyed ice skating, playing hockey and curling.
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@mistersir3020
7 months ago
Interesting that many of the houses seem to be brick.
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@tellthemborissentyou
7 months ago
Winter makes me feel phlegmish too.
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@pompom906
7 months ago
isn't this painting a focal point in the 1972 sci-fi film Solaris?
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@Joris-n1q
7 months ago
You mentioned the year 1565. The tensions were very great. Spain attempted to take a more centralised control over the low countries, both in civil and religious life. More persecution of heritics (lutheran, calvinist and anabaptist adherents), more direct spanish control in government. The merchants opposed these attempts, the gentry as well and even middle of the road catholics (William of Orange at that time!)
Add a harsh winter and thecstage was set for time of unrest and hardship.
In 1566 things went from bad to worse.
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@hejimony
7 months ago (edited)
Of course, the pessimistic theme of the painting would not be lost on rural peasants, who likely never got to see it, but on wealthy urban merchants and nobles and clerics, who lived off of the taxes on this frozen landscape and collected fine art.
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@maryc353
7 months ago
Ice hockey was not a thing until two centuries after the artist died.
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@cenaalan5825
7 months ago
Little ice age? Hope it occurs again and we would be saved from emission gas problems!
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@annoyingbstard9407
7 months ago
Only an American would imagine this is a scene from Flanders….
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@markiliff
7 months ago
Interesting analysis. But "Broogle"? ;
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@halhamilton4793
7 months ago
HIDDEN SYMBOL BEHIND MOUNTAINS ON THE PEAK WITH HOLLOW? A PART PROFILE OF A SKULL? ARE THERE MORE ON LEFT SIDE THE BRICK WALL STUDY THAT HOUSES THE PUB SIGN.
SCRIBBLES HIDDEN IN THE BRICK GROUTING - MUCH ENJOYED THIS BRUEGEL
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@dariusdaguerre3535
7 months ago (edited)
Who painted those winters in the other paintings starting at 5:39?
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@Delibrium
7 months ago
okay but, I live in Flanders and there are no mountains here whatsoever.
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@TaLeng2023
7 months ago
Little Ice Age
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@wendywhite2642
7 months ago
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@HawksCK12c
6 months ago
What was going on in lower right corner!?
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@Strakin
7 months ago
They seem to burn the tables and chairs of the inn
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@arhu74
7 months ago
The ue in is pronounced like the eu in french or modern dutch or oe/; in German
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@philippecolin151
7 months ago (edited)
Your reading of the painting makes a lot of sense. One could perhaps also imagine the contrasts of life, what is good for some is bad for others. I can imagine the wife of the hunter happily feeding massively the fire place in expectation of her hunting husband fruitful return, thus creating a chimney fire while her husband watches in horror from the hill top his house in grave jeopardy, withal disappointed from his hunting trip with his son. Whiles the rest of the world happily enjoys carelessly the joyful winter activities. To Stretch it further the Dutch protestants enjoying winter games (icy and flat ground) while the Bavarian Catholics (i.e mountains) are being punished from their sins.
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@jean-paulpotet1988
6 months ago
The signboard is not crooked but tilted.
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@Alf-s2b
7 months ago
The hunters had not hunted deer, which were reserved for the nobility.
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@finnandreen943
7 months ago
But there are no mountains in Northern Flanders...
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@georgeallen7667
7 months ago
Painting is portraying a chimney fire. Common in the past. Dangerous because of the intense heat of burning creosote. It can burn your houe down. That is why you clean your chimney.
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@frankanddanasnyder3272
7 months ago
So what does the missing painting look like ..or do we know?
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@m.c.l.8386
7 months ago
Thank you for your interpretation of this painting.
But the artist's sur name is pronounced "Broigel", not "Brugel".
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@InoNothin339
7 months ago
What was the sixth painting in the series, and what happened to it?
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@stavrosk.2868
7 months ago
Very speculative. Oh yes, Breugel was Flemish, n;t 'Dutch'.
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@Marta-x9x
7 months ago
Why was the painting used by Lars von Trier in Melancholia?
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@helenswan705
7 months ago
This is really interesting, thank you. But please, its not BROOgel, it's BROYgel. Easy enough to check on these things.
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@DHD-p4v
7 months ago (edited)
I'm looking at the painting at 1:03. Is that a real place? It looks like no place I've ever been to or seen illustrated or photographed. A river that wide flowing through jagged peaks that high . . . where is this?
EDIT Okay, it appears my question is answered in the last 20 seconds or so in the video.
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@PhilipBowde
7 months ago
Brewgall
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@Karadjanov
5 months ago
2:10 Those are not rabbit tracks. Rabbit tracks are very recognizable and distinct. You don't even need to be a hunter to know them. Maybe it is deer tracks. It fits better for the motive.
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@loki1066
7 months ago
Its a chimney fire.
The soot inside the chimney has caught fire.
Lack of maintenance.
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@funnycat1957
6 months ago
I shall have to go to Vienna to see this painting in the original: in the reproduction of it in my Renaissance art book, most of these details are undiscernable orat least do not come out forcefully.
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@muesique
7 months ago
This picture was used in Tarkovskys Solaris!
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@arriyad1arriyad649
7 months ago
The sign may represent Saint Hubertus, but also Saint Eustace.
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@dnstone1127
7 months ago
Peasants in England weren't allowed to hunt deer or game, after the Norman invasion of 1066.
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@ChristianpatriotUSA
7 months ago
I LOVED this video and subbed! Do you think the mountain *could represent the overall supremacy of God, though, no matter what happens within the turmoil created by man's attempt to dominate and control religion? I can't wait to get a book on Breugel! Thanks. And YES! More commentary please! :) God bless!
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@Tinil0
7 months ago
I love how his work focuses on peasants because it creates such an overwhelming feeling of life and humanity that is absent with the more clinical portraiture that the elite preferred of themselves. On one hand you have dukes and kings sitting formally to be painted to show off their majesty, iron-faced, regal, and on the other you have dozens of people completely ignoring the point of view, living their normal lives, interacting with their neighbors, playing games, laughing, crying, fearful, resolute, all of it just showing off how normal, average people experienced their lives. I personally find landscapes to be meh, they don't particularly inspire or offend me, but just the simple addition of people adds so much.
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@binky1612
7 months ago
As an art college graduate, I have to say that this is my all time favourite painting. Bruegel is amazing.
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@Alexisatlarge
7 months ago
If this is supposed to depict Northern Flanders, why does it have massive mountains in the background?
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@flightofarrow
7 months ago
The little ice age
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@maud3444
6 months ago (edited)
0:58 I know Belgium was part of the low countries or Netherlands back then, but calling this guy Dutch isn't right. He was Flemish (Belgian). I don't think my Belgian friends would like this :D
8:39 The region depicted in the painting is Switserland, not Flanders. There are no mountains in that place.
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@NQR-9000
7 months ago (edited)
Is that a Mk.17 H-bomb?
Where did they find it?
Are still another ones there?
May I have one too?
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@mnj640
7 months ago
It is a simple winter scene. Nothing sinister about it. From 400 years ago.
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@ronalgarcia2410
7 months ago
So basically, the medieval version of khyle.
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@andrewwinter7843
5 months ago
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@ThePortChicagoWitness
7 months ago
an eye-opener, especially for someone who is not familiar with the artwork or with art interpretation. I will watch it again after viewing all the comments, (including the disparaging ones that are not just spiteful shade). No shade needed for my unenlightened comment, just an observation from someone who doesn't know but wants to know: given the religious undertones, would it be reasonable to see the failed hunters as ineffective evangelists? I would also be interested knowing what contemporary paintings might correspond to the messages as explained in this video, if there is such a thing. again, no disparage and comments will be helpful as this is just someone trying to learn
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@MitchMcConnellsGhost
4 months ago
The hunters are from a different village that's not doing so good. They're preparing to hunt the residents of this neighboring village.
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@DrKaoliN
7 months ago
9:40 Maybe this way, if someone got offended, Bruegel could say that it's in another (imaginary) country.
Or maybe he just liked mountains ;
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@buy_large_mansions
7 months ago
We all know hunting dogs proudly saunter around the place up on their hind legs after a successful hunt.
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@jameslahey1090
7 months ago
16th Century. Belgium. "...playing ice hockey...'. Canadians: WTF?
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@joelsullivan1248
6 months ago
This was during or right after the 80 year war.
Might even be soldiers coming home. Since they’re also not carrying traps. Those could also be stray dogs. Stray dogs are a cultural mainstay of Europeans
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@phastinemoon
7 months ago
“Where are they going” Home.
“Why do they look like they had the worst day of their lives?” Because they didn’t catch much on their hunt!
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@amargicois
7 months ago
The house doesn't look like it's burning.
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@williamconrad1087
7 months ago
How do we know there were six paintings in the series? Do we know the theme of the lost painting?
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@brunovanhove1832
7 months ago
Sure messages enough in "Breugeliaanse schilderijen" but even if this era shows the small ice age that lingererd for over a century, in Flanders, Holland and Germany, like we learned in history lessons over here, Flanders it definitely isn't, well at least not the low land, Flanders, Holland, "mountains? " But like our history teacher pointed out to me even if there is no historical evidence of where exactly this was painted, he could have travelled to these regions with mountains, or simply used his artistic freedom, like with" de toren van Babel!, why not? Fun thing from my youth , and getting schooled over here in Flanders, we visited these museums frequently as children, and I still go and look at Bruegel, Rubens, van dyck ,van Eyck, Jordaens, Memling, when the opportunity arises,and the more you look at them, the more one seems to notice over the years,getting older! To each his taste of course! But I still hear my teacher" saying ":about modernisme , surrealism and what have you? " Ontaarde kunst!"
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@myfaveyoutube
7 months ago
What about the lady behind the fire who’s body disappears
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@atomsk9000
6 months ago
okay, but what about the guy with the table in his hands?
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@skwirlnone1543
7 months ago
The spears form a cross...
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@fujin09
6 months ago
Strange landscape for a flemish painting though, no such hills anywhere near (talking from a flemish village).
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@worldnotworld
7 months ago
Interestingly, in much of Europe it was only single magpies that were a bad omen or symbolic of evil. Sometimes it's any odd number, while even numbers were good signs. Sadly, this one is alone...
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@olivertwist8015
3 months ago
If you know limburg then you know these are not the Alpes. By the way, there's a village called "kleine br;gel" with ; pronounced as in bird.
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@dulciemidwinter1925
6 months ago
Is Breugles name pronounced Brugel to rhyme with frugal or Broigle where the eu is pronounced oi as in oil? with ? I have never known which was which. In England, we say Broigle, but I'm not sure how the Dutch would pronounce it.
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@Singulitarian
7 months ago
More Bruegel.
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@Zsolt_Peter_Kodner
7 months ago
01:20 They were going downward on a snowy hill (what can be slippery) and they were watch for themself because they knew „...danger is everywhere...”. So, It is not a body language matter.
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@chucknaill
7 months ago
Chimney fire.
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@happyfeet-h6k
6 months ago
Pieter Brueghel was born in Brussels, he is a Flemish painter.
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@chebbesen
6 months ago
The interpretation of the painting misses that Bruegel lets the torso of the man in the lower left foreground be pointing with his imaginary bow and arroe/weapon to the escaped bunny hiding in the tree shrubbery to his left below the unsuccessful hunting party
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@russellstyles5381
7 months ago
If it was possible to hunt deer with a spear, the deer were calmer than they are here. You can't even look at them.
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@markmoore6258
7 months ago
Whatever their reasoning is, we shouldn’t judge. Not everyone gets married for love.
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@Doktario_Mystario
7 months ago
one of the mountains vaguely looks like a cloaked person praying
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@toddbellows5282
7 months ago
Chimney fire. Not house fire.
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@Dano12345100
7 months ago
...and one of the dog is taking a dump!
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@shawnstephens1251
7 months ago
Some folk have way too much time on their hands.
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@johnwarr7552
7 months ago
If you think for one moment that fox is not destined for the pot you are VER dim- and have never been cold and hungry. ;
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@roqsteady5290
7 months ago
Not sure how useful spears would be for hunting deer. Even with a rifle it is hard to get close enough to a deer for a shot. I do know that spears were used in hunting wild boar though, but a boar hunt is a complicated affair where beaters flush the boar out of cover and drive them towards a line of hunters.
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@ChrisDyche-y3q
7 months ago
I would say chimney fire. Not house
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@the_eaglefan
7 months ago
How are there people playing hockey in a 16th century painting?
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@user-zw5he5bd7j
7 months ago
ok where not talking about the dragon flying by ?!
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@RONNYGUITAR1
7 months ago
Flanders, let alone northern Flanders doesn't have mountains. Hills maybe, but mountains?
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@MagUidhir958AD
7 months ago
Watch Tarkovsky's Solaris.
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@BaconIover69
7 months ago
8:05 ah just like today;
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@artklinic
7 months ago
well, narrative is not bad, but these rocks shows fairly not Flandres landscape? what you think?
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@cgfreeandeasy
7 months ago
The house isn;t burning, its only the chimney, that is burning. Thats a bad thing and can cause damage to the fireplace in the house, but its not the house, that is burning. How can a chimney catch fire (if it is made of stone)? Because of long and hot fires with not adequate (or too wet and too much) wood, that can;t burn fully, rather makes too much soot, that then will deposit in the chimney and at some time, will catch fire. Things happen, especially, if that is really times of "little ice age", where that fireplace probably was burning 24/7 and with way more wood/fire, as normally would be used. If you do not extinguish the fire in the chimney, it will distroy the chimney and that is a bad problem for a winter in a little ice age. And then, the house also can catch fire. So, because that is probably "little ice age" experience, they have seen that often and knew, what to do.... and so, also the painter put that scene into the picture.
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@alanbeaumont4848
7 months ago
So those mountains are "totally made up" are they? Take a look at the cliffs at the Meuse river on the Belgian border. Every bit as dramatic and stark as depicted here.
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@grahamgilbert4883
7 months ago
Broogel?
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@lucasottens8506
7 months ago
Protip; You don't hunt deer with spears. Those are boar spears.
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@ever-openingflower8737
7 months ago
So what if a magpie goes into the bird trap? Would that be symbolizing the devil falling for his own trick or what?
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@Эмеритус-Вонг
7 months ago
This painting contains a hidden self-portrait of Bruegel.
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@atlas944
7 months ago
0:54 looks about 79 years old in portrait. Died at 44. A different time.
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@heinrichwonders8861
7 months ago
What? Northern Flanders is depicted? I can assure you that the tallest geographic feature in Flanders is a particularly high molehill.
The Name Flanders means "flooded land".
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@sedopolomut
7 months ago
What did you base your analysis on? Are there sources about Bruegel making those allegories in his paintings and not just you making things up? I am not being facetious but I think proving cited sources that you based your analysis from would be helpful.
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@hanzo52
7 months ago
I count less than fifty on the ice
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@rgmarsh1836
7 months ago
I think those spears are more intended for hunting wild boars.
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@thedentfamily8467
5 months ago
I have this painting in Animal crossing
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@dna9838
7 months ago
4:02 that looks nothing like a magpie
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@amina-pr8xt
7 months ago
They don't play ice hockey on the painting but (ice) colf
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@jeanhopman5659
7 months ago
BROY gell
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@LandersLawyerings
7 months ago
The prononciation of Brueghel should be considered an act of war.
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@ruudmeeuws3273
7 months ago
Placing such high and menacing mountains in Flanders must have a purpose. They symbolize the high and the eternal, what everyone knows and sees, what is rock solid, but which is now in the background. It is the truth of the Gospel that is being forgotten by the parties in the religious war. This is precisely what this painting wants to express.
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@mozempire5096
7 months ago
NO discussion about the hidden symbolism behind the downed skater on the ice...He's curled up, not splayed out, so it has to mean something...
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@Lazyo-y2k
7 months ago (edited)
In Christianity a white peak signifies a steady true believer. So the white mountain in da' painting means that there was a true believer in Flanders at Pieter Bruegel's time. ;Cheers;
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@rozzbourn3653
7 months ago
hes called the elder, but died at 44. makes you think.
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@The_Irate_Penguin
7 months ago
Yet the central question remains unanswered: Where's Waldo?
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@Sc-dd6hb
7 months ago (edited)
I’m the only one shocked at the HOCKEY sticks?? In 1565!
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@normanreichwald6158
7 months ago
Okay, we all recognize that mountain in the background, don't we? We all know who lives up there with his dog, Max. Yep, not showing at the foot of the mountain, Whoville. Am I right? You guys all see it, don't you?
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@Theflyingpotato
6 months ago (edited)
As a peasant myself; the spears are probably for keeping wild boars or other physical threats at a distance. long dogs can take down and or slow deer to a point where they can be killed (with a spear if necessary when antlers are present). Returning with heads hanging low could be for many reasons. Including being exhausted. Seeing that the local tax collector is ice skating instead of being dead. Having eaten the lion’s share of the hunt in order to survive the trip only to find the towns folk who said they were starving are burning calories having a gay old time. 5:13
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@RonaldCremers
7 months ago
There are however no mountains in Northern Flanders as seen in the background
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@SirFloofy001
5 months ago
thats not "a burning house" do you really think they would be climbing on top of the roof if the house under them was on fire? Its a chimney fire, something fairly common with wood fireplaces.
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@mstephenjoy
7 months ago
If only they had known they could change the weather with a tax.
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@melkiorwiseman
7 months ago
Three crows in the trees, and three hunters. Is that symbolism, or not? I tend to think it is.
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@janitastenhouae656
6 months ago
Very interesting. But I challenge your pronunciation of his name. He was not Broogle.
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@fleetcenturion
7 months ago
If those peasants were hunting deer, it means they were also poaching.
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@jermsp15
7 months ago (edited)
I dont understand, how?
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@RiceFam2016
7 months ago
Hockey in the 1500s??;
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@f.w.ordemorton8057
7 months ago
The picture emphatically does not represent Northern Flanders, about as mountainless a place as you could hope to find
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@hankleigh9356
7 months ago
You are noticing way too many things in this that probably wasn't even on the painters mind!!!!!
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@TheodoreAndor
7 months ago
Was called The Maunder minimum.
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@ideapage
7 months ago
And to add insult to injury, the dog closest to us viewing the panting, is pooping.
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@MarieVisability
7 months ago
She analyzed the painting but failed to see the person face down on the ice? ; Missed that one, missy! ;
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@arriyad1arriyad649
7 months ago
It is not a bunny that escaped. Rabbits were not yet known in the Low Countries in the XVIth century. It was a hare. Hares are associated with hunt.
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@fritzthecat0815
7 months ago
I also wonder where in the Netherlands are such rocky mountains as depicted in the background? ;;;
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@gabbyn978
7 months ago
There is another element about this shield off the hook. On the mainland, saints were seen as objects of superstition, promoted by the Catholic Church, and the protestants totally refused to depict and pray to saints. The hunters, which confided in him, had no success. Maybe they are unfortunate Catholics, who set their hope in the wrong patron.
In old times, mountains were also seen as dangerous, and an obstacle on your travels. I can see a road that leads to the foot of the cliffs, but no path is visible on the upper plain. So the people are stuck in this valley (life?)
In the background is a town that might be located on a peninsula, with a sea behind, but it is hard to tell. The mountains are also partly going around the water - if it is water - forming it into a bay which may be protected, but will also leave only a narrow passage out; and whatever lies beyond is unknown. The reaction of the people is to stay at home and enjoy what the place is offering.
The house itself is not burning, but the chimney had not been cleansed for years; and the soot inside caught fire, which is dangerous. The people are trying to put it out before the house will burn down (roofs in those times were often thatched and would burn instantly, if one spark goes the wrong way). Maybe this a warning against fanaticism that could cause a civil war in an instant.
Crows don't migrate. They stay in place, as I have seen myself. If there is a warmer spot for the night, they will fly there for sleep, then return to the fields in the morning to search for food. You may view them as a kind of vagrants in bird shape, but they aren't souls. The real soul bird is the Robin.
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@KerryRussellRN
7 months ago
They played hockey back then? Damn, I thought it was invented in Canada maybe 150 years ago or so.
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@DAVIDMILLER-nc9vo
7 months ago (edited)
NOT SO! At least one of her themes is incorrect. There is no house fire. There is a chimney fire and that is much less serious than a house fire. I was at a friend's house when the creosote in his fireplace chimney caught fire. We did mount the roof to see if any embers had ignited the shingles. Should you have a chimney fire be thankful that your house is not on fire. But, over all, her comments are quite interesting and entertaining. A fun video!
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@alrx-2278
7 months ago
9:43 anybody else see a guy’s portrait hidden in the mountains?
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@SergioPerrout
7 months ago
This landscape sure is not belgium nor the Netherlends. Not a house on fire, Crows used to be everywhere in Europe, that is the magic of it,. Anyone can guess things from their perspectve.
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@mdg4347
7 months ago
Suddenly I think I get the whole of the symbolism of this painting.
It’s not all ominous doom and gloom, but it depicts people of the whole community, not tending to their priorites at home.
The hunting party comes back from fox- or rabbit hunting far away with a whole pack of dogs, and hardly any catch.
Almost all villagers are just playing on the ice, while the village is unkempt, falling apart, while one house is about to catch fire from the chimney.
The people tending to the open fire in front of the inn, do so while the smoke and flames are blown imto the building by the wind.
The mountains in the background symbolise this being the Lowlands.
Could all be a message about the people of those times giving all to distant ideological fights, with some stoking up fires, and violence, at home, while not giving attention to what’s actually necessary for life at home.
Ok. That’s enough coffee for the day.
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@tweaker1bms
7 months ago
Next I want an analysis of "Sexy Flanders" by The Simpsons ;
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@dnswhh7382
7 months ago
I don‘t think this picture shows north Flandern as mentioned in the video, because Flandern is a very flat landscape. Probably then more Wallonia, which is south of Flandern and which connects to the Ardennes
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@Loumi171
7 months ago
Go Habs go !!! Habs means les Habitants, the peasants...
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@onbedoeldekut1515
7 months ago
Bruegel = 'Broygel' to a 'western' ear, not 'Broogel'.
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@bobcavanagh8968
7 months ago
The landscape. So not Flanders
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@krystynarubiec1260
6 months ago
Hello there! Yes please do present your interpretation of the other paintings from the series. Btw. what would you say about the symbolism of a frozen water-mill? There is a saying in Polish: "Powoli miel; m;yny Bo;e". Which translates into: "God's mills grind slowly" - which means: it takes time but God's justice shall prevail eventually - the problem might be that the mill in the painting is not working at all...
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@f-xdemers2825
7 months ago
The art of seeing thing that are not there, arbitrary patterns and symbolism out of thin air.
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@133badger
5 months ago
And what does the dog shitting in the snow ,,, mean … just something that happened ,,, ;;
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@DHD-p4v
7 months ago
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@theresarts482
5 months ago
Maybe it is a chimney on fire, not the house.
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@FixedFace
7 months ago
5:11 signs
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@peterelgood1656
5 months ago
Hunting boars with spears. Deer hunted with bow and arrow and finished with a knife.
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@cbbbbrwx
5 months ago
thats not a fire btw, its a chimney fire
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@Sodomis666
7 months ago (edited)
I am Flemish. I suspect there is much more going on as Breughel spoke Dutch and was fond of using Flemish proverbs and idioms in his works as the Spanish occupiers did not speak Flemish. I am no historian, but the (fallen) people on the (thin) ice could mean "it's a slippery slope" and "moving on thin ice". The broken ice could mean "to disrupt a painful silence" The people extinguishing multiple fires in the painting... could mean: "to supress a revolt" in Dutch. The "rabbit trail" could be a "hare trail" which means: "to flee a situation". The beaten dogs could mean: "humble after adversity". Don't take my word for it though.
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@destondenniston9482
7 months ago
Big fish eat little fish is curious etching. Shall we?
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@Claudio_De
7 months ago (edited)
Burning house? Where? Though there might be fire coming out of the chimney.
Further, the hunters simply came back with little food, that's all. Have you tried hunting in winter? There aren't many animals around.
Don't bother talking about other paintings.
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@paper_gem
7 months ago
Guys, am I crazy? There are hockey players on the ice. They have hockey sticks. But when I search Google about who invented hockey sticks, they say it was invented in the 1800s.
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@patriciaw506
7 months ago (edited)
Please analyze the other Bruegel paintings in this series. Does the theological messaging remain the same?
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@JW_______
6 months ago
Those aren't bunny tracks, those are deer tracks
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@PhilipBowde
7 months ago
The sign hangers fingers were too cold to repair it. Plus he was hungry.
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@nickgould4521
7 months ago
These men could very well of been hunting wild boar.
They've probably been out since before dawn in the snow and freezing temperatures, hunts are not always successful, whether it's boar hunting or stag hunting, you would probably coming back with your head hung low.
I wouldn't be surprised if this painter wasn't a sixteenth century wind up merchant.
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@CarlosPEnis
7 months ago
*Jim Morrison voice
"Hunters in the snow" ;
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@shredderhater
7 months ago
Did I see Hockey?
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@Nancy-k1l8g
7 months ago
The name is pronounced Broygle, not Brugle.
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@alz7880
7 months ago
Brughel has lost media?
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@cmw184
7 months ago
You sound like betty from adventure time
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@AD-ju7ct
7 months ago
This sounds like it might’ve been during the first great awakening. The second grade awakening being when Joseph Smith was alive.
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@DrippyTheRaindrop
7 months ago
That's not a house fire
It's a chimney fire
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@ethanballard631
7 months ago
At 1:54, the dog in the bottom left corner appears to be pooping.
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@rueping
6 months ago
@Alla_Prima Author Correction note: They’re not playing Ice hockey in the painting. The sport of Hockey did not exist at the time and they are not using a puck. If you notice they’re playing with a ball and a short stick. If anything you could say they are playing a sport that predates the sport of Bandy. Bandy is a sport that uses a ball and evolved from ancient stick and ball games of Europe. Bandy also predates Ice hockey and was very popular sport in England and Europe. Although the term Bandy for a sport name did not exist as well when Bruegel painted this. I hope this helps.
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@SteveEvidence
7 months ago
Note: the netherlands got No Hills Like in this Picture
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@SOL_INVICTVS_RETARDVS_MAXIMVS
7 months ago
Wasn't this painting in a Tarkovsky movie
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@janhajek9032
6 months ago
Ice hockey in 16th century??
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@Андреич-с4н
6 months ago
Bloody hell. The Duеch played ice hockey 500 year ago when Canada was not there! They should claim back ice hockey invention
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@fookU-q3j
7 months ago
Comedy Gold
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@aemiliadelroba4022
7 months ago
This is actually a depressing painting ;
That failed hunting party and those dogs , no food for the village , this sound the alarm that things are not as good as they look .;
Those crows ;;; are symbols of death , those people not out for enjoying ice skating but trying to get some fish bcz they are starving.
all together a depression time
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@apjapki
7 months ago
So the burning building is a burning building?
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@mrspogadaeus
7 months ago
1:39 "The bags on their belts indicate that they are filled with... something..."
REGRETS, Karen. They're filled with regrets.
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@Dadu882
6 months ago (edited)
Breugel was not Dutch, he was from Belgium.
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@annskinner8467
1 month ago
Magpies are black & white
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@user-zu9ks9wl9i
6 months ago (edited)
Not much mention of the appalling campaign by the Spanish in the Netherlands in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which informed Brueghel’s painting,
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@julianwynne8705
7 months ago
Since all the responses seem unrelievedly positive and admiring, just two comments: First, one of the most puzzling, aspects of this is the commentator's constant reference to 'the PROTESTANT Reformation' - as if there were some other one (viz., not Protestant); then, she seems to suggest what she calls the 'precarity' of this time was something quite new - a view hard to sustain when one considers that the Plague was in B's time very far from extirpated.
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@S-North
7 months ago
The house isn't on fire, the chimney is.
Magpies in any number were thought to be a good omen.
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@jige1225
7 months ago (edited)
5:40 "the Little Ice Age"... which, according to a certain Michael Mann, did not exist... ;
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@Aelea
7 months ago
I'm sorry, am I the only one who's shocked that people had ice skates and hockey sticks in the 1500s?
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@joachimluft4501
7 months ago
Nearly 500.000 clicks in 3 days wtf is going on here ? This speculation is a hit, but why??
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@edennis8578
7 months ago
I doubt that Breugel had any idea of putting that much meaning into it. This reminds me of the guy who wrote to famous authors asking if they put a lot of symbolism into their work like literary critics claim. The answer from all of them was basically, "Hell, no!"
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@skinwalkers1516
5 months ago
Flanders mentioned!
I invite you all for a disappointing hunt
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@jankrusat2150
7 months ago
This is not Northern Flanders. Northern Flanders is flat as a pancake. Either this picture depicts the Ardennes mountains, though the mountains there are not as openly rocky, or he travelled further south into southern Germany or France.
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@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756
7 months ago
That painting does not depict Northern Flanders........not unless the mountains have disappeared.
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@hoomann6512
7 months ago
...and 13 dogs, which some might say symbolisse the 12 Apostles plus one for bad-luck, viz Judas
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@PhilipBowde
7 months ago
Toe may toe
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@lifeisbutadreamsodreamon
6 months ago
Anyone Dutch ? Would love to know the official pronunciation of Breugel ... she says Brewgel, and I have always said Broiygel ; now really curious :)
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@thack57
7 months ago
It could mean that or... or Maybe it's an early example of 'Fake News' ;;
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@VassilyGrigoriev
7 months ago
This track is not a bunny one. That's a cat's one.
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@mournblade1066
7 months ago
Wait--how is ice hockey being shown? Ice hockey's predecessor didn't even exist before 1790?
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@arvidsfar1580
7 months ago
I s there a reason why this painting (as well as the others of that series) is set in a mountainous terrain? Flanders, as part of the Low Countries, is notoriously flat.
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@goldielocked7111
7 months ago (edited)
The fire is not a house fire, it is a chimney fire. It was common in these days, because chimneys was a rather new thing, and the craft was not fully mastered. The problem would be a buildup of soot in the chimney, which is flamable, and no real barrier from sparks from the fireplace directly under.
For what it was symbolizing, one could be thinking that a buildup of old and unpopular liturgy(soot. For example the catholic practice of paying money to be abolished for your sins, was very unpopular, because most people just could not affford it.) was highly flamable in the meeting with new fuel(protestantism) and discontent(sparks). Can one save society, before it all burns down, can the chimney fire be contained, saving the house? A decent try on interpretation, if I have to say so myself.
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@kaduseus
7 months ago
What about that boat though?
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@mikeb.7068
7 months ago
It's a chimney fire not a house fire.
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@spookytkid
7 months ago
Its a chimney fire. Not a house fire...
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@MirandaAndrews-m1w
7 months ago
Clean your chimney flues every year ;ghen you wont burn down your house
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@jimspear3033
6 months ago (edited)
Ever heard of a chimney fire? they didn't have copper salts to burn off carbon and creosote deposits. Had to choke the fire.
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@het6296
7 months ago
This and other paintings by Bruegel feature in a key scene in one of the best movies ever made, sci-fi, Solaris by Tarkovski. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bel6g-OrtgE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZhQPaw4rE&t=205s
And he paraphrased it in another movie, the Mirror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-6K8OHafcg
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@MattCultPop
7 months ago
You don't hunt quail or partridge in snow!
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@steveshea6148
7 months ago
How is the calling someone who farms or does small crafts under the legal control and obligations of a medieval lord an insult ? I'm trying to work that out
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@GripVanWrinkled
7 months ago
buckle-up buttercup? gfy
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@almolin
7 months ago
You missed the dog at the back of the pack, leaving more than just its footprints in the snow ;. Any hidden suspicions?
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@omwst1946
7 months ago (edited)
Correction: the artist's name is pronounced 'Broygel'
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@leonsantiago5162
7 months ago
br;y-g;l
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@berylbrown9561
7 months ago
the botton left dog is pooping
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@misterbonzoid5623
7 months ago
I think it's pronounced 'Broygel'
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@Soberfuzz
7 months ago
So, who invented hockey?
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@TheDalester-07
7 months ago
Why is the music so silly? ; completely takes away the seriousness of it lol
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@Zep927
4 days ago
Maybe it was the people who rescued the Donner Party ;;;;
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@Patrick-yh5yd
7 months ago
I see people some with no food barely able to get back to the village. Why not carry something dead for people to eat?
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@jeffreymorrissey6064
7 months ago
I don’t understand how global warming could cause a mini ice age.
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@davidkennerly
7 months ago
Note: "Bruegel" (aka Bueghel or Breughel) is mispronounced here. There is no hard "g" in his name. The Dutch would use a guttural sound that is represented by the "g," while others, who are unable to produce that sound, usually say "BRO-hill" or "BRU-hel" but never "BRU-gl."
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@BillieGrey-q3c
7 months ago
Okay, your friendly neighborhood nitpicker points out:
It isn't a house on fire. It is a chimney fire. The reason that a dozen or twenty people are running with ladders to fight it is that a chimney fire can be stopped before it destroys the house. But if it isn't brought under control the house will be ablaze very quickly. The chimney fire is burning creosote which burns hot. Also, the chimney is taking the heat through the entire height of the house. Danger but not yet destruction.
Oh yeah, speaking of danger, under the snow on the roof of the house with a chimney fire, it is almost certainly thatch. Fortunately, cold thatch covered with snow. But the creosote fire will be hot enough to get rid of the snow and fire the thatch. Really, serious danger. If the chimney fire breaks through side of the chimney, which might be wattle and daub, but I can hope that it is masonry, the thatch will be fired from below the snow and ice.
Danger, like a St. Hubertus sign hanging on one hook, instead of two.
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@OriginalNiceButOdd
7 months ago
When art was art, unlike the dross churned out today
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@willscoggin5165
7 months ago
More likely hunting for boar rather than for deer.
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@RenzoColameoIrlanda
7 months ago
thanksdocyougotthis
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@bebo4807
7 months ago
I believe that Flanders from the Simpsons has a deep connection to Bruegel and the eternal battle between Satan and the ecclesiastical confines of the mortification existing in the exegesis of modern redactive criticism.
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@robpeters5186
7 months ago
Anyone see the dragon in the sky?
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@shoshanaudelson4481
7 months ago
And it's the city folk who will see this art, not the peasants represented in it. Ironic;
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@ardeladimwit
7 months ago
Peter brueghel the Elder is 16th C artist, so there is absolutely no way anybody would be playing ice-hockey in that painting as ice-hockey didn't exist until late 19 century and is generally considered North American game adapted from Native Americans.
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@gidouille
7 months ago
Charles C Mann used this painting to signify the little Ice age when he discovered that it had been painted on May 1st, 1565. It's believed that the massive die off of peoples in the Americas due to the Columbian exchange microbes was a contributing factor in causing or perhaps worsening the little ice age as their common practice of burning off the forest undergrowth was heavily curtailed by the population crash, resulting in so much less carbon being released into the air as to significantly cool the climate of northern Europe.
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@celestine5340
7 months ago
5:35: "Northern Flanders, the region depicted in the painting...." NO WAY. Flanders is as flat as a pancake which had a steamroller going over it. I clearly see mountains in this picture. The region depicted is NOT Northern Flanders.
And that is NOT a magpie either. A flying magpie has very distinct white and black wings. I don't know if Brueghel was bad at remembering birds or if this is a misinterpretation, but it doesn't look like a magpie at all. It looks more like a swallow, which is not possible either, because it is a winter landscape.
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@fredwilliams9572
5 months ago
It certainly looks like that hunting dog, lower left in painting, is droping a big load while squating in the snow. Maybe that also represents the Devil. Maybe we see his left hind leg, or he is cooling off his testicles in the snow. Who knows? Such a mystery.
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@williammkydde
7 months ago
So, ice hockey was not invented in Canada.
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@careyfreeman5056
3 weeks ago
How is there hockey in 16th Century Europe?
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@sandie157
7 months ago
Revolution not so much Reformation
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@momaassen2516
7 months ago
This painting does not depict the northern Flanders landscape. Flanders does not have mountains. At best, it is an idealised landscape, incorporating elements from Flanders (village life), Germany (castle), and a mountain scene that has elements similar to landscapes found in the Ardennes, Eifel, and Taunus regions.
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@CLIPPITERMINATOR
7 months ago
Sneaky Pieter
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@perrysar5954
6 months ago
I think you need to stop taking drugs dear, you're living in your own altered reality
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@anotherelvis
5 months ago
Thumbnail at 3.20
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@DovidM
7 months ago (edited)
The “bloodhounds” are not the modern Bloodhound but the ancestor of the Bloodhound called the St. Hubert Hound. The St Hubert Hound’s descendants also include the Basset Hound and the Grand Bleu de Gascogne.
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@jefwinter4162
5 months ago
Interesting relations but maybe not the most immediate ...
The fire close to the house with now prey in it is winding into it and there the dangers are real of ignition ...
So all those elements similarly inclined as the '' Affiche '' are relaying the spark that blackens the normal crow of the tree apex ( not three trees showing no tips ) no wonder the cross bird is above the flaming chimney ( entering the wrong way , just as the father Peter of Jesus on X-mass ) ..
So of course Rudolf and his red centered son ( or father ) between the antlers is also first to make touch down ...
We even have a Pete-accord relation concerning the squares on the sides of the right triangle !
connected with perspective points ...
still , no risks of eruption or avalanche from that abrupt mountain cliff
where the snow coating is as good as the 2 rinks !
I say no more !
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@mrfester42
7 months ago
Regarding the two hunters in the lower left of the painting, you ask, "Why do they look like they've just had the worst day ever?" There's nothing about them that might lead a modern viewer to think that. They look like they're just two men walking through the snow with their dogs following them,.
Regarding the hunters dogs you mention that, "Even their dogs look embarrassed", and, "Their disappointment is palpable". I don't think anyone would interpret that pack of dogs that way.
You mention Bruegels hidden symbols like "...these crows perched in the trees and even the magpie circling above." That looks like a Pheasant circling above, not a Magpie.
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@Gary-pogi
7 months ago
Why don't you comment on the fact that the hunters appear to be about to walk off a cliff!
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@CV_CA
7 months ago
Peasants were not allowed to hunt right. Only nobility could. Peasant were not even allowed to have hunting dog.
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@Paul-u2x7h
6 months ago
Playing ice hockey in the 1500s?
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@olivertwist8015
3 months ago
No quails in winter in Flanders they are migrant birds.
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@rad4579
7 months ago
The house is not burning.
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@peterdumarchievanvoorthuys4509
7 months ago
This painting definitively does not depict North Flanders! We don't have jagged peaks in the Low Countries.
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@Lynne2106
6 months ago
Please do comment on more Bruegel paintings.
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@Homelessman45678
7 months ago
Solaris ahh painting
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@Testing-123
7 months ago
Hey, every "mountain" created by Bob Ross came straight from his imagination!! (Not comparing the two...just sayin)
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@J3619
7 months ago
Yup. A soot fire, chimney fire, not a house fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_fire
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@feralbluee
6 months ago (edited)
Great interpretation of this painting! Thanks very much :) ;
But - For gods’ sake - it’s Bruh-ho in Dutch not Brewgel !!
- How to pronounce “Pieter Bruegel” - YouTube
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@therealthomasanderson
7 months ago
the devil's in the details
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@kiereluurs1243
7 months ago
I doubt 'ice-hockey'.
I need a better watch.
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@StodOneR
7 months ago
That's not hare footprints , hare footprints have a pattern like this
= - -
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@carter358
7 months ago
I had no idea there was ice skating in the 16th century.
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@matthewsmith9423
7 months ago
I bet if we could talk to the painter today... 80 percent of the philosophy we have come up with had nothing to do with the painting.
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@Aengus42
3 months ago
Isn't his name pronounced Broy-gel"?
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@notanfningain
7 months ago
Buckle up buttercup?
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@Lurcherman-p4k
7 months ago
Where is this mountainous scene? I don’t think it’s Flanders ; which is as flat as a pancake ;;;;;
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@Anberel
7 months ago
Anyone else only watch this because of Animal Crossing?
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@Jimmy-p9n
7 months ago
Overthinking
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@opsatr
7 months ago
What's your word count in this video essay?
Because I'm thinking here's an example of "a picture is worth a thousand words". ;
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@dws5951
7 months ago
Dogs dont show shame ...they show exhaustion ... the house in the distance is not on fire .... rather its a chimney fire, a common occurance with wood stove or wood fireplace central heating ... the triangulation used to direct the eye to a specific point ... questionable at best ...considering just how many other tiny details exist in the art work ... the dwelling immediatley to the left of the hunters is very interesting, the single person on the bridge also an eye catching focal point ...trying to break down the artists palet is ridiculous...compare it to a wide angle focused modern camera ... you snap a shot and it is what it is ... a capture of a simple moment of time.
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@jplully
7 months ago
The lady recording this should look up what Dutch and Flemish actually mean. She constantly mixes the two up.
She even says “North Flanders” 5:35 , whatever that means.
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@nucleardragons
7 months ago
Spears were used for boar and bear - to keep them at distance, fire in the chimney is fairly normal, you just need to clean the chimney - that's why he climbs up Analysis - my a$$
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@tweaker1bms
7 months ago (edited)
6:10 To be fair they thought everything was a punishment from God ;
"Verily! I have stubbth my toe!" ;
"'Tis a punishment from God!";
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@barrybeckett602
7 months ago
Lovely video, I simply wish the commentator bothered to learn jthe correct pronounciation of the artist's name . . . .Peter BROI- GEL, or BROYGEL, . . .
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@nickg2431
7 months ago
Usually when the devil cannot be there personally,he sends a woman not a magpie.;
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@mobeck
6 months ago
Only painting to ever feature people curling, LMAO
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@phyarth8082
7 months ago
Movie Solaris 1972 have very cryptic depiction of The Hunters in the Snow moment. Stnaislav Lem the survival of Warsaw cleansing wrote Solaris about Transubstantiation
more philosophical take of Sci-fi compare to 2001 Space Odyssey technology innovations. Most ironic twist that Solaris have 6 minutes (boring) scene car driving in Japan multilevel aqueducts. And 2001 Space Odyssey have a lot of (boring) moments where space ship moves from point A to point B. As David Byrne is hos comedy movie said Texas multilevel highways are cathedrals of our times. Concrete churches where we worship God or devil based on your taste.
Both movie have similarity 2001 Space Odyssey have 3 French romantic age painters paintings with flirting and cupids and Tarkovsky movie have Flemish paintings. Ending is kind of similar for both movies in we end humanity will return to organics life style lived in 17 th - 19 th century no electronic oranges :)))
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@raven-d4b
5 months ago
TARKOVSKY.
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@davidthompson6636
7 months ago
Symbols: 13 dogs
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@chriskappert1365
7 months ago
Pieter Breugel de Oudere .....
If you translate Dutch , do it right or non at all ,
Thenk joew !
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@marisadallavalle393
7 months ago
Nothing exciting to discover here.
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@jackreacher.
7 months ago
''Ain't no Sunshine When She's Gone''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuKfiH0Scao
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@rupfhuhn
7 months ago
There are no such mountains in Flanders.
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@kurzackd
7 months ago (edited)
Bruegel from beyond the grave: "Kids these days, man... Over-analyzing EVERYTHING when I only intended to "code" like only 1/5-th (one fifth) of what they are "decoding" ... ~_~"
Yeah, sorry, but, even though I appreciated this nifty expose VERY MUCH, I still interpret a VAST PART of your "analysis" as complete INVENTION ... :/
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@scottl.1568
7 months ago
Whut ;
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@mjpspit
7 months ago
Peter the elder isn't Dutch!
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@Daniel-kz2io
7 months ago
;Sixth?
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@finzenberger
7 months ago
there is no innocence in art.
never.
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@5herwood
3 months ago
What makes you think they would hunt deer with a spear? You use bows and arrows for deer. You hunt boars with a spear. You get them to charge. How are you going to get a deer to charge at you?
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@MCDek
7 months ago (edited)
Chimney fires, back in the day due to lack of awareness, today due to lack of awareness. Its common knowledge chimneys need to be swept, so it could symbolize how ignorance and lack of awareness have a domino effect.
Pride shall be the downfall of man, dont have to be religious to know its true.
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@shibolinemress8913
7 months ago (edited)
Sticking with subtle religious iconography, could that imagined mountain in the background have also reflected the mountain in king Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Daniel 2), which symbolised God's eternal kinggdom rising to conquer over the devil, man's hubris, sin and suffering? Or is that too much of a stretch?
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@TransoceanicOutreach
7 months ago
Its BROYgull not brewgell.
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@MartyCorsacFox
7 months ago
I think the mountains DO hold meaning; they don't belong in the landscape, they are some kind of intrusion, probably another religious allegory.
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@oldtimeway1
7 months ago
I cannot believe you didn't comment about the fire so obvious at the left side of the painting. You didn't even elaborate on what is going on there. You can tell by the one carrying the table and those gathered around a pile of straw burning what is going on but you never said. The poor dejected hunters return home with no meat to eat. I wouldn't even say you could think there's so much as a partridge in their pouches. They appear empty to me. All they have is a fox whose fur would benefit the rich and not the poor. Yet at the left these folks have food. They are butchering a hog. Swine were killed then straw piled around them and set on fire to scorch the hair and hide. We still do this butchering at home. Then they put the hog on the table and scrape the hide with a knife or a hog scraper and the charred skin is removed so you can butcher the pig. Now back to your precarious sign of the Catholic saint whom it appears could easily fall into the fire and be burnt along with the hog which in the Bible is considered an unclean beast which cannot beat eaten. Thus the fires of hell full of that which is unclean symbolizing the Catholic church on its way to hell. As for those worried about the one face down on the ice. You've never gone ice skating? Skating brings falls ad accidents. A symbol of the precariousness of life. People are hurt all the time while others go merrily about their way. What can start out as a fun day of enjoyment can end in tragedy. Fall and break a bone on the ice or worse yet, be injured so you die, yet others merrily gliding past you and they don't care nor notice. Just like the house in the background with the chimney fire. Fires were a great danger in those days. In minutes you could lose all. These poor people are about to lose all and yet few there are to help them yet not too far away dozens are enjoying themselves. Now back to the first fire. Why in the world would anyone in their right mind build the fire to singe a hog so close to your domicile. Not only could that sign fall into the fire but that close to the house, a puff of breeze from the wrong direction and that whole building which is identified by the sign, and it's going to go up in flames thus the hint that Catholicism is about to come to a firy end, or is that perhaps just the artist's hope?
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@Aaron_Barrett
7 months ago
Сажа загорілась в димоході
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@uffa00001
7 months ago
Call a chimney sweeper from time to time, don't save that money, because your house can burn. Keep your chimney clean, learn from ancient painters!
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@halfaminutearthur6926
7 months ago
This reminds me of a true story of how a group of christians who had literature smuggled it outpast the germans by using children on s;eighs to hide books on them& slide down the hill 2 the frozen lake & disperse without being found.l though the commentator was going to say that this was bout that.
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@Zenon-twentyone
7 months ago
Just ad more weight ;.
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@JayGroom
7 months ago
This came up on my feed,really interesting and informative and I knew I’d seen that painting somewhere before.
https://youtu.be/kvRs8FyPv8o?si=bs4SNatv1gxC61iC
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@thegram9207
7 months ago
And that is why ordinary people, like myself, cannot fully enjoy art - including literature. Either the cultural "elite" (and the rulers ) hide this for common man OR they are not so elite. Interesting . Shows true purpose of most art . Deep contrast to modern art that mostly serve to provoke , make money or simple ornamentation . All art should come with an explanation - preferably from the perp.
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@eoinmurphy210
7 months ago
There I was thinking climate change was a new idea.
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@BoDray
6 months ago
Dutch Renaissance? I thought flemish
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@boringpolitician
7 months ago
Why is no one speaking of the person lying in a fetal position on the ice?
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@moonblossom-i7i
5 months ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/Kx3mZzboMKg?si=wQpHxjx1cEXz-90K
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@gurglejug627
7 months ago
There's a lot of pseudo-educative speculation there, akin to us being told at school what author William Golding was trying to tell us in his "Lord of the Flies", but on his death bed he said he hadn't meant any of what we are taught, at all. A lot of the fatigue and poverty depicted can be down to the Dutch 80 year war against Spain and how by 1608 people were exhausted. Sure, on top of that there was a cold winter, but then winters in the Middle Ages were harsh for people across Europe.
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@chej9
7 months ago
The great mountain, guarding the town, far away from any ordinary people to climb it, can't be found in existence but came from the imagination of the artist.
Yeah, no religion meaning whatsoever.
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@PiotrDzialak
5 months ago
Bruegel good in landscapes, also political ones.
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@IAmRobertPersson
6 months ago
That’s not Flanders. Flanders is flat.
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@jamiehill736
7 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqmS-XBKXc
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@rerenaissance7487
7 months ago
Isn't the mountain where God sits looking down on the behaviours of His creation? The artist is making visible, by allegory, what the viewer should remember is there, not deny it just because their eyes don't perceive it.
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@Gliese380
7 months ago
Flemish, not Dutch. But whatever.
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@pamc9226
6 months ago
His name is pronounced Brygol!!!!
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@LeP;dantS;mantique
7 months ago (edited)
Was he really thinking of all this?
What will an analysis of my bedroom photo reveal two to five thousand years from now?
This individual carefully laid his unfolded pants on the corner of his bed nearest the door to symbolize his readiness to egress in an emergency. While the box of tissues & lotion on his nightstand showed how he wanted to be ceremonially abluted during his prayers before slumber.
; IJS
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@ruudmeeuws3273
7 months ago
A further explanation is provided by the three large peaks. The highest is God the Father, then the Son, and then the Holy Spirit, who, as can be seen, is directly connected to the church. The three peaks on the right have a connection from below and seem to want to connect to the church to the left, but that hasn't really worked; there's still a very small opening. These are the dark forces in the world trying to gain influence in the church. That's a threat that is very close.
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@laurenth7187
7 months ago (edited)
But how does a 16 century painting refer to a 17 century painting (1617) ? You don't explain enough why the sign should link to St. Hubertus.
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@philpeko1796
7 months ago (edited)
;;;;;;; You didn't explain the bonfire at the entrance of the inn. Why a fire, just at the door of the inn? And why is the inn door open? This is going to be a big fire, a lot of wood/bale are stored along a tree, another women brings more wood apparently. Is is a symbolic fire, to sanitize the inn? The man over the fire seems to hold z bundle of hzy/bale to produce smoke. The fire smoke seems to enter the inn, a man took a table away from inside inn, what is it exactly? A great washing/sanitiing day? Was it a custom, a tradition? And there is a bucket, as if the man holding the table might wash it. AND There is a GHOST ! The figure of apparently a women is holding a bale on her left shoulder, but if you look closely, this person is TRANSLUCENT! We see the door behind her, instead of seeing her torso?!? What the FACT? Please, Help me understand !!! By the way, another inaccuracy : the "burning house" is not yet fully burning. What we see is exactly a chimney fire, when the soot in the chimney starts burning, but is actually a fire hazard because the whole roof and house might eventually burn. Peace & Prosper, love your work! Bring us more, pretty please !
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@wplains
7 months ago
Ah The Little Ice Age….and remember, it warmed up with absolutely no intervention from humans. So, still believe we’re influencing the weather with our Industrial age and cars?
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@Ethan1320
7 months ago
It's not BROO-gul, it's BROY-gul
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@Paul88-qg5hu
7 months ago
Nice but the endless repetition is really annoying
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@magnusterminus4728
7 months ago
It is Breugel, not BrUEgel....
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@CDeBeaulieu
7 months ago
You wrongly mention quail as a potential hunter's quarry. European quail are migratory and winter in Africa. The picture is a winter scene in Northern Europe.
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@ryanfriesen8456
7 months ago
That term "hidden" always bothers me. My students are often inexperienced readers who have been told by well-meaning high school teachers that analysis is a treasure hunt for "hidden" clues. It's not. It's willingness to join a conversation with the creator of the work. We shouldn't mistake ignorance of how visual and textual language works for the artist or poet's trickery
Artists don't hide meaning. Poets don't hide meaning. They communicate meaning.
Just because they are communicating subtle messages doesn't make this "hidden." The creator of the work is in a dialogue with the viewer/reader, and expecting that person to enter into a conversation with them through the work. That's not possible if meaning is truly "hidden." It's only possible when meaning is being presented and represented, as it is here.
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@frankenjstein9371
7 months ago (edited)
I'm with the Protestants.
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@Lemma01
6 months ago
The landscape of 'Northern Flanders'? No, it really isn't... Paintings of this period we're designed as entertainment - there's no mystery about that - and similarly there is no SINGLE hidden meaning. Rather a potpourri of 'easter eggs' which encourage repeated scrutiny.
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@romanbandera7232
7 months ago
“Spears for hunting deer” Unfortunately, this is nonsense; commoners would never have dared to hunt deer, as this was reserved for the nobility. The spear was for wild boars. But otherwise, it is a well-explained historical account.
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@wetherman
7 months ago
BRUEGEL PRONOUNCED BROIGEL ITS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE!!
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@thesjkexperience
7 months ago
Christianity, man made authoritarianism from Plato’s Cave. ;
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@kimghanson
7 months ago
Not a very good job of hiding. Both the chimney fire and the pteradactyl are clearly visible.
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@jameswarner7435
7 months ago
It is hard to say for certain, but the unusual cold experienced in these parts of Europe back then likely resulted from the large numbers of fossil fuel powered full sized sport utility vehicles driven by soccer moms...
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@gaborszeberenyi1917
7 months ago
There is no such thing as an "innocent" Bruegel's
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@causewaykayak
7 months ago
What's not innocent about hunting.
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@andrewmadeup7375
6 months ago
Analyze hahaha
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@crawford1083
7 months ago (edited)
Pieter BRU-HEL not BROO-GEL Dutch pronunciation
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@julianwynne8705
7 months ago
'Sneaking secret messages and symbols INTO his work' and 'WITHIN' the artwork (where else could anything be??) all very inapt, this 'sneaking': first, because the inference is that they're NO LONGER secret, it seems, five c later (thanks to the commentator) is that it? - but perhaps they weren't that, then! Secret, or 'hidden'' from whom, then? Second, the strong Platonic (anti-empirical) component to Christianity, which held up all advance in disinterested thought/scientific progress for - well, according to one's perspective, anything up to two thousand years.... - meant that in B's time the prevailing view (inso far as anyone thought clearly before the Aufklarung) was that we, and the world, are ALL merely symbols - so to refer to symbolic 'details' is about as wide of the mark as can be...
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@Liffster
6 months ago
Maybe your 'mission' could include the correct pronunciation of the artist's name: Broyhoel.
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@thewanderingamerican5412
7 months ago
It's a chimney fire. Let's move on ..
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@ottavva
7 months ago
at least to try not to butcher his family name - find yourself a Dutch friend
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@mariannekiss1279
5 months ago
OMG! His name is Bruegel , not Bugel!!!!
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@HydroHercules
7 months ago
An artist hiding meaning in their paintings?! It must be because they're hiding meanings from the Church!
Isn't hidden/double meaning an artist job?
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@user-qb6zy4rl8e
7 months ago
No need to repeat twenty times the same thing
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@jodepploro3783
7 months ago
Thank you for the introduction into this wonderful painting. But why do you say the same thing five times over? I got it the first two times that there is religious symbolism in the painting. It's a very American thing that I've noticed in documentaries before. Is it just to drag the script out?
Anyways, thanks again for your analysis.
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@moi3557
9 days ago
It's pronounced 'Broy-ghel'
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@amblincork
6 months ago
This might br a great video but I stopped watching after 3 minutes because of all the clicking and whooshing sounds - this fad or obsessionb with so many video makers for using clicking and other sound effect noises is hard to understand - they add nothing all to the vidoes and for many people with hearing issues can be problematic ...is there some video making school which is teaching that noise polution sounds in videos are compulsory and viewers find them appealing ?
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@ellenchacon5776
7 months ago
Ice hockey??? Sorry, not in the 16th century
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@scheisstag
7 months ago
If you hunt with a rifle, a modern weapon, than in average only one hunt out of ten is successful in modern middle Europe. (I am a hunter and thats the thumb rule for my area.) 9 out of ten times you get zero. So them bringing in a fox and in addition something else just with sharp sticks and dogs must be seen as a big win. And a lot of tracking dogs have hanging ears. This is just a sign of this breed. But I also heard that the ears work like a funnel to lead the smell from a track to the nose. This person has no knowledge about hunting or fishing.
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@harrybaulz666
7 months ago
Whatever
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@Sssthpok
7 months ago
there is NO bloodhound in that pack .... FFS
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@DonBailey-q4x
7 months ago
Chimney fire , not the house on fire , burning the creosote out of the chimney
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@KornelTomaszewski
6 months ago
analiza na moje oko raczej przedobrzona, zw;aszcza po wej;ciu na tematy religijne. No i ta arbitralno;;... z jednej strony, mamy podbudowan; eschatologicznie egzegez; szczeg;;u typu w kt;r; stron; psom zwisaj; uszy, a z drugiej lekcewa;;ce machni;cie r;k; na inne elementy, typu skaliste g;ry (ee, to sobie wymy;li;, to si; nie liczy).
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@breathecenteraccept120
6 months ago (edited)
Thank you, that was interesting.
Just: Would you PLEASE learn how to spreak the name correctly or at least NEARLY correctly...
Edit: and not the house is burning but only the chimney, and there just the soot in it.
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@DumbleDankOG
7 months ago
This seemed like a gross over analysis of what to me is still an innocent painting.
The hunting dogs were for hare and foxes not deer
The house fire thats really a soot fire
The black birds just being birds.
It just looks like the basic happening of a normal town.
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@barbarathomas2561
7 months ago
The dogs aren't disappointed. That is a human emotion. They are tired. Anyone seen working dogs coming home after a day's work? This commentator obv hasn't. Useless beginning that put me right off!
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@jrb4347
7 months ago
A bit of a stretch … never even knew dogs felt embarrassment let alone can see it in a painting. The house on fire wasn’t explained. From studying art history the only thing glaringly obvious was the painter was a Protestant so if he was trying to hide his religious beliefs he didn’t do that very well.
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@mikebutler3263
3 months ago
Nothing new here.
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@TomMason-io1yn
7 months ago (edited)
Prominent artist though-out the dark ages put hidden meanings depicting ideologies that the Roman Catholic pope would deem as heresy. This may have influenced this artist and his piece and may others like it
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@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq
5 months ago
The Little Ice age is ignored by the prophets of doom that plug the so-called, ''Climate Emergency'' ! yet here we see bitterly cold winters depicted that happened quite naturally and we see folk getting on with their lives ! so consider the difference, back then nobody complained they just got on with it, but nowadays the Politicians use a possible change in the weather to corral and coerce the populace also as an excuse to levy Taxes and force us to obey their silly made-up Laws. I wonder if any modern Painter will document the stupidity of mankind in the current century ?
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@vnekliaev
7 months ago
By overthinking the painting you are destroying its atmosphere.
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@JohnCooper1
7 months ago
Nonsense.
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@Rose-Campion
7 months ago
This lady did an excellent job getting the point across, without panicking the herd. Bravo. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're the herd.) Also - RUN.
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@gracevaughn8132
7 months ago
Never liked that painting. I took art appreciation and soon realized that most people are subconsciously aware of visual perceptions and such classes help refine that skill. The first reaction that makes a person look closer, help ask questions about the visual clues in the painting and the message of the work.
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@stevensteven3417
6 months ago
To much talking, come to the point
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@timdowney6721
6 months ago
Worth noting that religious wars are particularly violent and gruesome. Because, of course, everyone thinks they’re fighting to do one god or another’s commands.
A pox on religions.
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@leegunring
7 months ago
So does that mean that the hunters who catch nothing in the painting and the smoking chimneys are all a reference to the Catholic Church, while the people playing on the ice are Protestants?
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@walttalmadge8647
7 months ago
It all sounds far fetched, someone has way too much time to sit around and think up stuff.
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@ravinraven6913
6 months ago
I feel like your opinion on things are far from accurate. If the bird trap signified human souls and how easy it is to catch them....then WHY IS IT EMPTY?! If it were easy then it would either have multiple birds about to be caught or have been caught. It seems like there's a famine....you didn't mention that there were 13 dogs specifically had to do with the devil. You just said 13 dogs with their heads down implying a failed hunt. Or those people with the dogs can be hunting something different. I don't see the frozen lake cracking at this time. If it was about that, it would have cracks. So it seems like your personal opinion doesn't seem to be accurate from reality
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@johnjohannesjuan
7 months ago
2:08 sorry, but no. Quail are migrant in Europe, so they would not have caught them in winter.
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@Taketimeout3
7 months ago (edited)
“ Broy - gal”!
It’s pronounced Broy gal.
Like “boy - girl” but add an R.
And it’s “aircraft”, not “aircrafts”
Also the Gulf of Mexico,
not the Gulf of America.
Im MALA. Make America Literate Again.
(The Again might be a stretch).
BTW did anyone tell you you have a great epididymus ?
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@lacykeith3956
7 months ago
Please comment on others.
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@Retroscoop
7 months ago
And if this is a Flamish landscape, why are there mountains in the background you'd expext in Austria ? The Flanders region is more or less flat as a pancake, with just a few hills here and there, made famous by bicycle races..... ? Not sure if the painter saw all the symbols current day experts or "experts" think they have discovered. A painting without birds would have been odd, and the most omnipresent birds during the winter, even in today's Flanders are simply crows. They are very reckognizable for everyone who experienced winter on the countryside in Flanders. And well, fires in chimneys very often took place, people falling on or through ice too. As for the hunters, well, maybe they're just facing a strong wind... I mean, sometimes I have the impression analysts are rather trying to make a name for themselves rather than translate the thoughts of a painter.... Just my 0,03 $ opinion of course, inflation included
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@ivangoran4461
7 months ago
you're not pronouncing the name right
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@SmilynRant
5 months ago
Just get to the point dude. Four minutes in and I’m still wondering what it’s about like just get to the point.
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@JordanBeagle
7 months ago
Protestants and Catholics each thinking the other is spawn of Satan is so classic, the more things change, the more things change the more they stay the same
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@anthonvanderneut
7 months ago
This sounded interesting, but I could not continue watching after the continious butchering of the pronounciation of the painters name.
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@rhonataylor85
7 months ago
The narration is annoyingly corny. Such a shame because the content is OK.
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@-drakrats-
7 months ago
Aside from the annoying American pronunciation of Bruegel there's some liberties taken with the subjects in the painting. The 'hunters' are probably not hunting deer. Staffs like that were more commonly used for boar and the dogs used for coursing
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@gazza2933
7 months ago
No. Shouldn't be eating animals that eat meat.
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@jonathanwestphal9288
6 months ago
Please say the name right - not BREW-gel.
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@dgoodman1484
7 months ago
Everyone is enjoying themselves except the men. Because they know if they don’t take care of the real world problems, like obtaining food, making and saving the shelters, everyone else will die! It’s no different today! The rest of the world plays and stays home, while the real men of the world end up as the essential workers risk their lives and still go to work. Yet during Covid, weren’t the ones eligible to receive a government check! And they didn’t even get a thanks! That’s how the world treats men!
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@scottbucklin819
7 months ago
The click noises as frames change are overdone and not necessary. I stopped watching and moved on.
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@egonhaslebacher7082
6 months ago
what a load of crap, get a job.
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@HarrieHausenman
7 months ago
most overused background music on the tubes. kinda ruins a genuinely nice piece of music. ;
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@chestermosburger3113
7 months ago
God bless central heating, supermarkets and gore-tex.
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@DannyJKay
7 months ago
Over-interpretation, for me.
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@rwwr8170
7 months ago
Oh let's tear apart your narrative just a little bit. First of all there's nothing indicating that the ice is going to crack after all there's humans all over it and nobody seem to have fallen through so you just made that up. Second of all it's not a house fire it's a chimney fire there's a real big difference. One has a sporting chance of putting out a chimney fire but without a doubt it doesn't mean that the whole house is on fire as you keep saying. And these common peasants went to their almanac which they couldn't even read to determine the weather has changed through the centuries.? Maybe you made that up like the mountains.
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@phil2630
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@eddyjuillerat310
7 months ago
A painting describing some anti-catholic message commissioned by a banker... all is there.
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@michroz
7 months ago
Too elaborate and mystifying narration. I think a lot of accusations are made up. Simple fact: artist painted for money, so he painted what can be sold (or what was ordered). At those times of no TV or Internet, painting became sort of a social and public media. The more unexpected "points of interest" artist managed to fit into his painting, the more successful he was. So even after a while the owner suddenly noticed something new in the old painting, and there was a point to discuss or be amused. This is my imho on this.
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@GordonLF
7 months ago
Too much commentary. Flanders was the most prosperous part of the world at the time of that painting.
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@lornabelkin5918
7 months ago
So sad that Bruegel is mispronounced :(( it detracts from the otherwise excellent content.
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@andrasfekete5881
7 months ago
Smoke less pot and explain less!
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@andybettistube
7 months ago
The mispronounced name drove me crazy!
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@phil36310
7 months ago
MISINFORMATION !! Pieter Breugel was FLEMISH !!!!! Not dutch !! En learn about Flemish culture before making these comments that are your misplaced observations out of context !
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@PowermadNavigator
7 months ago
Randomly got this in my feed, I give no sh*ts about art and watching this and reading the comments I feel like I don't live in the past as much... just some people are from another planet.
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@Vincent-ct7ik
7 months ago
Are you human ? Otherwise I do not subscribe … ;
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@timothybridgewater5795
3 months ago
And it’s Broygel not Broogel. Oh sorry, I was forgetting you’re American
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@MickeyMouse-ul2zs
7 months ago
Am sorry, but all this narrative could be very well construed as complete and total b*ll*x. Obviously and undeniably a lot of thought has been spent on this but to state that the picture represents somewhere in Northern Flanders is utter rubbish - even a complete imbecile who has been exposed to just basic geography knows that Northern Flanders is as flat as a pancake and there are certainly no rocky mountainous peaks that can clearly be seen depicted in the right-hand background of this painting.
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@MaxwellDeyes
7 months ago
You are mispronouncing Bruegel and misinterpreting the activities in the painting. Thanks for sharing your ignorance
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@michelnowe7783
7 months ago
0:57
He was not at all from the Dutch renaissance ! He was from actual Belgium, the Spanish Netherlands. He is a Flemish Renaissance painter. And.certainly not Dutch
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@spartan-m5s
7 months ago
A rose is a rose is a rose.....my goodness, just try to not complicate everything just because it sounds whatever definition of cool one thinks it sounds.
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@AQ-g7p
5 months ago
nice explanation, but PLEASE...!!!!, your pronunciation of Bruegel is very off putting. Please look it up and pronounce it correctly.
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@rogermagnusson8877
7 months ago
13 (dogs) is also the meaning of bad luck.
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@aiai-j7i
7 months ago
Awful and full of errors! Study art and Art History before you make these videos.
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@casper1581
7 months ago
This is such an annoying voice.
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@WhatIsTheSecretOfTheGrail
7 months ago
lol your seeing to much that’s not there.
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@nolslifegren
7 months ago
Hunters spears form a cross
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@fandru5538
7 months ago
Very interesting analysis but i can't fathom how, as awoman who is clearly passionate about this painter, you may come with such a bad idea of putting numeric falling snow upon this masterpiece. Terrible lack of taste, in my opinion... or lack of faith in the mesmerising beauty of the painting...
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@robinmiller7958
7 months ago (edited)
The commentary totally ruined what was initially a very nice painting. Thanks a lot.
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@losmosquitos1108
6 months ago (edited)
Sorry, ice hockey was not known then, what you saw, is a local sort of curling. If you really want some „dangerous reality“ stop the vid at 2:50 and count the feet of the front guy who carries the wooden tray with soups. Yes, he has three feet, obviously. Probably a Flemish alien. Now that is a horrible and veeery dangerous secret, right? ;.
Very poorly researched video!
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@EarnestWilliamsGeofferic
6 months ago (edited)
...Bbloodhounds? Nah. Also, at first glance... all of this is obvious. How dumb are the people you're speaking to? You barely even scratched the surface of the symbolism in the painting and none of it, literally none of it, is hidden for the actual audience.
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@MuhammadJafary-z7g
7 months ago
This was a bore fest. Warn us of arthouse content instead of baiting next time.
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@zeropointenergy1574
7 months ago
Blathering nonsense.
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@thelpcritic
7 months ago
Did you just crib the entire "retaining viewers" advice from YouTube and shove it all into the first 30 seconds?
Embellished, stolen, and editorialized content.
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