Peasant Wedding; ; Wedding Feast;

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was famous for painting scenes from peasant life and here he depicts a wedding feast that would have followed a Church wedding ceremony. Bruegel's Peasant Wedding encapsulates the joy of peasant life, from the small boy in the foreground eating every last morsel of pie to the bride, strangely placed in the background, who looks on the humble scene with contentment. The barn setting provides ample space for the makeshift banquet, set out on a long row of tables. Approximately twenty guests are gathered at the table, while others crowd about the entrance at the far left,... Mehr ...