The land of milk and honey (Bruegel)
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| The land of milk and honey |
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder , around 1567 |
| oil on wood |
| 52 × 78 cm |
| Alte Pinakothek , Munich |
The land of milk and honey is a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from around 1567 . The 52 cm × 78 cm oil painting on wood is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich .
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A knight , a farmer and a scholar lie around a kind of “ table-deck-you- tree” . The knight with a lance and iron glove rests on a pillow, the farmer sleeps on his flail and the scholar lies on his fur, next to him is a book and paper. His eyes are open and he is waiting for a drop from the overturned wine jug to fall into his mouth from the round platform above him. Correspondingly, the knight's squire is waiting at the top left for a pancake to fall from the roof. Behind it you can see a fence made of sausages and a milk lake on which ships sail. A roast goose lies on a pewter plate , and a ready-to-eat pig with an accompanying knife runs around. Even the apparent cactus on the right edge of the picture is made up of bread. Behind it, a newcomer has just eaten his way through a mountain of dough.
Motive and interpretation
To the land of plenty to come, a candidate must first eat through a porridge or Teigberg. When that is done, he finds himself in a place where almost everything is edible. Laziness is a virtue there and industry a sin. This motif was extremely popular in the 16th century, along with tales of paradise and fool stories. With the scholar, the peasant and the knight, the artist presents the three classes as at the mercy of the same lower needs and temptations. Intemperance and indolence were considered two of the seven main sins to which Bruegel dedicated a series of engravings. In other ways, too, Bruegel emphasizes the earth-bound nature of human nature by showing not only food intake, but also excretion. Well-known examples of this are The Peasant Wedding and The Elster on the Gallows .
Bruegel stitches
inertia
gluttony
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Vöhringer - Pieter Bruegel, 1525 / 30-1569 Tandem Verlag 2007 (hfullmann imprint) p. 125 f. ISBN 978-3-8331-3852-2 .
Web links
Old peasant woman | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, 1564) | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, around 1556) | The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow | The country wedding | The peasant dance | The conversion of Paul | The Bethlehemite Child Murder | The fall of the blind | Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Galilee | Christ and the adulteress | The three soldiers | The gloomy day | The magpie on the gallows | River landscape with a sower | The yawn (?) | Great Tower of Babel | The port of Naples | The return of the flock | The haymaking | The wedding dance | The hunters in the snow | The battle between carnival and fasting | The children's games | Little Tower of Babel | The grain harvest | Christ Carrying the Cross | The cripples | Landscape with the Flight into Egypt | Landscape with the fall of Icarus (?) | Seascape with a burning city (?) | The misanthrope | The nest ejector | The Dutch proverbs | The sermon of John the Baptist | The land of milk and honey | Saul's suicide | The fall of the rebelling angels | Death of the virgin | The great Grete | The triumph of death | The Bethlehem Census | The wine for the feast of St. Martin | Winter landscape with ice skaters and bird trap | Two monkeys | Twelve Proverbs (?)
(?) Attribution controversial | Formerly attributed to Bruegel