The Senses of Hearing Taste and Touch

Artwork: THE SENSES of HEARING, TASTE and TOUCH

Artists: Jan Breughel

Created: 1618

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: 176 x 264 cm

“the Velvet “ (1568-1625)

Location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Source photography/Wikipedia “Peter Brueghel the Elder is undoubtedly the most original master of the 16th century, an his influence on later developments, both in landscape and genre, cannot be denied.

He has been hailed as the founder of a school.

This statement must be qualified. He does not stand out in the 16th century as the Van Eycks stand out in the 15th or Rubens in the 17th. Some of his followers, like his son Pieter Breughel the Younger (1564–c. 1)37), either copied his pictures with remarkable success or provided some valuable work “in the manner” of the Master; but a large number, like his eldest son Jan (1568-1625) (or Velvet Brueghel, owning to the softness of his tone colour), abandoned the archaic style of the old school and joined the new Antwerp School which flourished in the 17th century in the Rubens studio.” Émile L.

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