Colloque : "Bruegel and Italy", Rome, Academia Belgica, 26-28 septembre 2019

2019 marks the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel in Brussels in 1569. To celebrate this master of the European Renaissance, the Academia Belgica, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and the Università de Genova co-organize an international conference, “Bruegel and Italy/Bruegel e l’Italia.” Bruegel is best known for his peasant and winter scenes, archetypal images of the Low Countries, but his masterpieces always transcend the local. A defining element in his hybrid la..