For a while now we have had the idea of pursuing Pieter Bruegel by visiting cities where his works are exhibited – particularly Brussels, Antwerp and Vienna. We were inspired by Robert L Bon…
Seven men and a woman all with large noses dancing around a pole from which breeches, a shoe and a flower wreath are hanging. A bag-pipe player and a shawm-player on the left. In the middle ground a group drinking and eating around a table, a sword fight in the background. Illustration to the Hans Sachs poem 'Eins tags vil kurtzweyl ich vernam ...'. Woodcut
Hans Burgkmair. 'Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian I'. Augsburg, 1512-19. From a set of 131.