The Harvesters
Title
The Harvesters
Description
This painting from the Northern Renaissance is unique to the Italian Renaisssance in that it portays ordinary people in their ordinary lives. Many of the paintings by this artist depict peasants and food it some way, reminding us how important food was to them in their daily lives and political decissions.
Creator
Pieter Bruegel
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art, online database: entry 110000242
Publisher
Google Art Project: Home - pic Scaled down from 7 level of zoom out of 8, JPEG compression quality: Photoshop 10.
Date
1565
Rights
This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.
Original Format
oil on wood
Citation
Pieter Bruegel, “The Harvesters,” Art in Early Modern Europe: 1450 - 1789, accessed May 3, 2024, https://histangelproject.omeka.net/items/show/53.