Arth. 354: Dutch Baroque PaintingHistorical and Artistic Background

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Dance-detail, c.1567 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

Habsburg Empire c.1556

Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

Hieronymus Bosch, Table of the 7 Deadly Sins, c. 1480-85 (Madrid, Prado, 120 x 150)

Gluttony

Anger

Gerard David, Altarpiece of the Baptism of Christ, c. 1502-07 (Central panel, 130 x 97, Each wing, 132 x 43; Bruges, Groeningen Museum)

Jan Gossaert, Danae, 1527 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek, 114 x 95)

Jan Gossaert, A Young Princess (Dorothea of Denmark?), 1522 (London, NG, 38 x 29)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children's Games, 1560 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 118 x 161)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Dance, c.1567 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 114 x 164)

Joachim Patenir, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1520 (Madrid, Prado, 121 x 177)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563 (London, Courtauld, 37 x 56)

Pieter Aertsen, Butcher's Stall, 1551 (Uppsala, Sweden, 123 x 127)