This film is about the 16th century Flemish painter Peter Brueghel. A cultivated townsman, Brueghel rejected the manner and style of his contemporaries and painted landscapes and scenes of country life so truthfully that his pictures reflect every aspect of the day-to-day life of that time. Among Brueghel’s work we see “Hunter in the Snow”, “Road to Calvary”, “Taxing at Bethlehem”, “Blind Leading the Blind” and “Wedding Feast”. Narrated by Sir Kenneth Clark.
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ACMI Identifier
003797
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Study and teaching
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Themes, motives
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art and society
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art appreciation
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Flemish
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists
Crafts & Visual Arts → Bruegel, Pieter, ca. 1525-1569
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - Flemish
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Art - Study and teaching
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)