Graphically, the initial inspiration was taken from the very famous painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, whose representation of the tower of Babel is part of modern imagery.
Concepts and Senses in Visual Art: Through the example of analysis of some works by Bruegel the Elder.
Many of Dufourt's larger works have been inspired by the paintings of artists as various as Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt, Poussin, Guardi, Goya, and Pollock (Pasler 2011, 198, 227).
This sombre and highly complex multilayered poem evoking reminiscences of Bruegel and Bosch paintings, written in a unique hybrid language based on Croatian kajkavian dialect interspersed with Latin, German, Hungarian and the archaic Croatian highly stylised idiom, radiates universal dark truths on the human condition epitomized in Croatian historical experience.
A part of the Lobkowicz collection of paintings is stored in the castle, including works of Diego Velázquez, Antonio Canaletto, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peter Paul Rubens and others.
Bruegel's paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum are shown in the 2012 film, Museum Hours, where his work is discussed at length by a guide.
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It is believed that his painting The Hunters in the Snow influenced the classic short story with the same title written by Tobias Wolff and featured in In the Garden of the North American Martyrs.
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His 1564 painting The Procession to Calvary inspired the 2011 Polish-Swedish film co-production The Mill and the Cross, in which Bruegel is played by Rutger Hauer.
The cover of the album is a composite of two works: the first being The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel; the second being the blue sun.
Pliny the Elder | Pieter Bruegel the Elder | Lucas Cranach the Elder | Cato the Elder | Daniel K. Elder | Elder Futhark | elder | Mark Elder | John Pinch the elder | Faustina the Elder | Elder Conservatorium | Edward the Elder | Pieter Brueghel | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | Nicodemus Tessin the Elder | John Rennie the Elder | Jan Brueghel the Elder | Helmuth von Moltke the Elder | Hanno the Elder | Thomas Linley the elder | Robert Livingston the Elder | Pieter Mulier II | Pieter Hintjens | Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder | Melania the Elder | Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder | John Elder Robison | Jacques Villeneuve (elder) | Hans Holbein the Elder |
Among the best-known artists that are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the museum are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Mark Rothko, Edvar Munch and Willem de Kooning.
David van Buuren decorated his house with paintings from James Ensor, Joachim Patinir, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hercules Seghers, Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Tsuguharu Foujita, Kees van Dongen, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Fantin-Latour, Rik Wouters, Gustave De Smet, Xavier Mellery en Constant Permeke.
Still more than 1,000 artifacts are missing, including The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (donated to the Museum in 1937 by Stanisław Ursyn-Rusiecki) and priceless others.
It is inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1564 painting The Procession to Calvary, and based on Michael Francis Gibson's book The Mill and the Cross.
Further, the exhibition shows, i.a., The Hay Harvest painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (also known as Haymaking), one of five remaining landscape paintings belonging to The Months cycle.