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Skeletons overrun a blackened, fire-lit landscape, driving crowds of fleeing nobles and commoners before them. A handcart hauls a shrouded corpse, a horse-drawn cart hauls a mounting pile of skulls, and skeletons in armour cut down soldiers beside a banquet table where cards and a lute lie scattered. Distant hills carry burning towns, gibbets and sinking ships in a pale bay, under a smoke-streaked sky in scorched ochre, brown and grey.
The Prado dates the panel to 1562-1563 and reads it as a moralising work on the triumph of Death over worldly things, a theme Bruegel took up under the influence of Jheronimus Bosch. Formerly in the Spanish royal collection, it entered the museum in 1827 and was the only Bruegel in Spain until The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day was acquired in 2011. A restoration presented in May 2018 lifted repainting and coloured varnishes that had turned the surface almost monochrome ochre, recovering its crisp blue and red tones.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was a Netherlandish painter and printmaker. He trained in Antwerp, likely under Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and travelled to Italy before settling first in Antwerp and later Brussels, working for merchant and court patrons. His crowded panoramas of peasant life, proverbs and biblical scenes set in contemporary Flemish landscape combine close observation of ordinary people with wit and, at times, dark allegory. His paintings are held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the Museo del Prado and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
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