A celebration of Flemish master painter Pieter Bruegel REPLAY
(17 Mar 2019) BELGIUM BRUEGEL ANNIVERSARY ++REPLAY++
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Brussels – 11 February 2019
1. Wide of "Fall of the Rebel Angels" by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder
2. Various of close ups of the "Fall of the Rebel Angels"
3. Mid of Tine Meganck, Bruegel Scholar standing next to the painting.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tine Meganck, Bruegel Scholar and Researcher at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels:
"This year we celebrate the 450th anniversary of (Pieter) Bruegel's death. I would say any occasion is good to celebrate such a master of the European Renaissance and of humanity. We cannot celebrate his birth, which would be more joyous, because we don't precisely know when he was born. But we know that he died in 1569 here in Brussels."
4. Woman looking at Bruegel's "Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap"
5. Various of close ups of "Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap"
6. Wide of Meganck and two other people looking at Bruegel's painting "The Census at Bethlehem"
7. Various of close ups of Bruegel's "The Census at Bethlehem"
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tine Meganck, Bruegel Scholar and Researcher at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels:
"Italians (Renaissance artists) would have focused I think mostly on the ideal depiction of the human which is of course the prime creation maybe of nature in contemporary thinking, certainly depicted this way. Bruegel focuses on nature from a different angle, on humans of all kinds, certainly people from the lower classes, from the peasant class, from popular life, which was not at that point a topic for art, and also on nature in the sense of creative nature itself; for example climate, weather, atmospheric conditions."
9. Wide of Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
10. Various of close ups of Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
11. Wide of Royal Museum of Fine Arts
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Antwerp - 5 February 2019
12. Wide of visitors at Museum Mayer van den Bergh looking at Bruegel's "Mad Meg" painting
13. Wide of Bruegel's "Mad Meg"
14. Various close ups of Bruegel's "Mad Meg"
15. Mid of Museum Mayer van den Bergh's Curator, Rita Van Dooren, looking at "Mad Meg"
16. SOUNDBITE (English): Rita Van Dooren, Museum Mayer van den Bergh's Curator
"You have this personification of anger. You have a representation of violence, of war going on; but you also have – which is very important in this painting but you can see in other paintings by Bruegel as well – he's almost mocking, criticizing the hierarchical relationships between men and women. And you have the inversions of their traditional roles in society."
17. Various of close ups of Bruegel's "Mad Meg"
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Brussels – 11 February 2019
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tine Meganck, Bruegel Scholar and Researcher at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels:
"He (Bruegel) also makes you think - when it was his own time - about issues of his own time. But the more we learn about that, the more we see how some of these considerations are very universal and are still very relevant issues, again about how you position yourself in times, for example, of strong transition times, lots of changes in the world, new discoveries, various opinions."
19. Pan left from Meganck and two other people looking at Pieter Bruegel the Elder's paintings to paintings by his son, Pieter Bruegel the Younger
20. Various of close ups of "The Fight between Carnival and Lent" by Pieter Bruegel the Younger
Brussels – 8 February 2019
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