It's plain to see why from this landscape of the city in which he created his greatest works: It looks like it was made in the 1900s, not the 1600s. Instead, Bruegel articulates a humanistic vision in which the ordinary outshines the divine.ĭomenikos Theotokopoulos-known more familiarly as El Greco ("The Greek"), a name he picked up after moving to Toledo, Spain, in 1577-was a major influence on 20th-century Cubism and Expressionism. It was extraordinary for a time when landscapes served mostly as backdrops for religious paintings. This attention to detail continues throughout the painting, a procession of ever-granular observations receding into space. They're eating bread and drinking bowls of milk one guy is sacked out with the top of his pants unbuttoned. The time is probably early September: A group of peasants on the left cut and bundle ripened wheat, while the ones on the right take their midday meal. This composition was one of six created on the theme of the seasons. Sought out by patrons in his own lifetime, Bruegel emphasized the ordinary in a way that made him seem old-fashioned in the years following his death his reputation remained in eclipse until 20th-century tastes revived his quotidian subject matter and vast, cinematic vistas. Bruegel's fanfare for the common man is considered one of the defining works of Western art, but it wasn't always so.
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