Fiammingo’s composition depicts two of the typical scenes of 16th-century European peasantry, reflecting, through a vertical division in the composition, the activities of harvesting and shearing. After the winter and the subsequent spring, the rains have taken effect in the plantations for the subsequent harvesting of foodstuffs with which to subsist during the coming winter. With the same eagerness, the shearers collect the wool that has protected their animals from the cold to shelter them from the harsh climate that awaits them in a few months’ time.
Collection: Images
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVI
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (120 x 170 cm)
Source: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Language: Spanish
Date: Segunda mitad del siglo XVI
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: P000037
Copyright: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Abstract: Distintos grupos de campesinos, representados por Fiammingo, se dedican a actividades campestres propias del verano como la siega o el esquileo del ganado
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