Peasant Wedding (detail); ; Wedding Feast (detail);

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. The barn setting provides ample space for the makeshift banquet. Approximately twenty guests are gathered at the table, while others crowd about the entrance at the far left, probably due to the laws that were passed limiting the number of participants. The time is early autumn, as indicated by the sheaves of wheat hanging on the wall. Peasant Wedding exhibits a sophisticated composition, in which the diagonal arrangement of the table... Mehr ...