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Today‘s post for @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna by #kunstfueruns 👉 Hello to @pinakotheken on this #FlemishFriday 🙌 The ‘Head of a Peasant Woman’ has travelled from Munich to Vienna for the special exhibition ‘Bruegel’. This small panel depicts the head of an old peasant woman against a dark background, in almost full profile. The heavy jaw and the open mouth with its large, low-placed teeth create the impression that the woman is looking up in surprise or is not understanding something. It is not a portrait of an actual woman, however, but a so-called ‘tronie’, a study in which a painter depicted different facial types and expressions. Bruegel’s Head of a Peasant Woman is his only surviving tronie that is generally accepted as autograph, but we know from inventories that he produced more of such faces. Karel van Mander sketches a rather colourful picture of Bruegel’s life in his ‘Het Schilder-Boeck’ (1604). Yet, it is an important source for us. Van Mander also writes that Bruegel would often visit the countryside dressed like a peasant himself, with his friend the merchant Hans Franckert, and visit fairs and even weddings, pretending to be a relative. He thus ‘entertained himself observing the nature of the peasants – in eating, drinking, dancing, leaping, lovemaking and other amusements – which he then most animatedly and subtly imitated with paint’. It is unclear whether this refers to fact or fiction, but van Mander did fundamentally change Bruegel’s reputation, and it is he who created the notion of the ‘Boeren-Bruegel’. Back to the ‘Head of a Peasant Woman’: Dendrochronology established that the youngest growth ring of the support panel dates from 1539. This allows a relatively early dating, but based on its paint handling it is generally agreed that Bruegel’s Head of a Peasant Woman was created near the end of the artist’s life. It is great to see this masterpiece now united with other Bruegels, especially the ‘Peasant Dance’ and the ‘Peasant Wedding’, which are dated around the same time. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Head of a Peasant Woman, c. 1568, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek. #pinakotheken #kunsthistorischesmuseum #vie Yesterday‘s post for @weltmuseumwien by #kunstfueruns 👉 Today it is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. On this day the Catholic Church celebrates that Mary was conceived by her mother Anne in an ‘immaculate’ way. 🌙 The crescent moon under Mary’s feet is a characteristic element of the ‘Maria Immaculata’. In this object from Mexico ‘Virgin Mary appears to Juan Diego’. If you are still searching for a unique Xmas present this might be interesting for you: you can adopt this object, also to treat your loved ones to a very special gift. You will receive a personal ‘Art Adoption’ certificate. Click the link in our profile for more details! And have a look at @akademiegalerievienna @dommuseumwien and @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna for more depictions of Maria Immaculata! ✨ ‘Virgin Mary appears to Juan Diego’, Mexico, 1999. #weltmuseumwien #ethnomuseum #vienna #mariaimmaculata Yesterday‘s post for @akademiegalerievienna by #kunstfueruns 👉 On view until 3 March 2019: ‘Witches, Sea Monsters and the Apocalypse - Early Printed Works by Albrecht Dürer’ ✨ We are sharing this artwork by Dürer not only on the occasion of our new exhibition but also as today it is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Can you find Maria Immaculata in this masterpiece? A little hint: look for the crescent moon, which is a characteristic element of the depiction of Maria Immaculata. And another hint: look at @dommuseumwien, @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna and @weltmuseumwien for more Immaculatas! Albrecht Dürer, Das Sonnenweib und der siebenköpfige Drache, aus der Buchserie der Apokalypse, c. 1497 #kupferstichkabinett #akademiegalerie #vienna #albrechtdürer #mariaimmaculata Yesterday‘s post for @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna by #kunstfueruns 👉 Today it is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. On this day the Catholic Church celebrates that Mary was conceived by her mother Anne in an ‘immaculate’ way. So, it is not, as often thought, the day when Jesus was conceived by Mary (which would have been too late anyway, only 16 days before Xmas). According to the bible, Mary’s mother Anne kissed her husband Joachim at the Golden Gate and in this way conceived Mary. Yet the scene at the Golden Gate is hardly depicted (probably the most prominent depiction is by Giotto, in the Arena Chapel in Padua). But quite often the Virgin Mary is depicted standing on a crescent moon - a characteristic element of the Maria Immaculata – or like in this painting, standing on the globe, with a snake under her feet. Have a look at @weltmuseumwien now to see another ‘Maria Immaculata. And, also at @akademiegalerievienna and @dommuseum this theme is shared today. ✨ Carlo Maratta, Immaculata, 17th/18th century. #kunsthistorischesmuseum #vienna #mariaimmaculata Yesterday‘s post for @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna by #kunstfueruns 👉 This #FlemishFriday is to say hello to the @frickcollection 🙌 Many thanks for sending this special masterpiece, the ‘Three Soldiers’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Vienna! This small but exquisitely painted grisaille is on view within our special exhibition ‘Bruegel’ and we want to share some details about it with you all today. ✨ The men depicted here are armed with short swords that have distinctly shaped cross guards. These swords, so-called katzbalgers, allow us to identify the men as mercenaries, known at the time as landsknechte or lansquenets. Soldiers such as these, who initially came mainly from Switzerland but later also from other areas, were used as hired troops throughout Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. They were elegantly dressed in colourful doublet and hose, and the drummers often wore extravagantly feathered headwear. In the year 1568 the Eighty Years War between the Seventeen Provinces and Spain began. Both armies used mercenaries. So, it is most likely that Bruegel came across ‘landsknechte’. We do not know why, or for whom, Bruegel painted ‘Three Soldiers’. But once more this masterpiece shows how Bruegel aimed to share all aspects of the world around him. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Three Soldiers, 1568. New York, The Frick Collection #bruegel2018 #frickcollection #kunsthistorischesmuseum #vienna