Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; Brughel; viejo; ciclo de vida; siglo XVII; Museo del Prado; cotidiano - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:23:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; Brughel; viejo; ciclo de vida; siglo XVII; Museo del Prado; cotidiano - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Peasant life https://historylab.es/peasant-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peasant-life Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-vida-campesina/ Two scenes of peasant life in modern times, depicted by Brughel the Elder, circa 1621

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]]> This work was hung in the Tower of the Queen (Isabella of Bourbon, wife of Philip IV) in the Alcázar in Madrid and was a very popular type of representation in Flanders that combined both landscape and everyday scenes. The painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts various activities carried out by peasants, in this case related to the production of products: on the right cows are milked for milk, on the left cows are pressed and kneaded, and in the background a group of men load the products onto a cart to presumably take them to the city. These works were seen as a moralising and didactic depiction of the values of the new, more joyful and peaceful society, in comparison to the works produced by his father, Jan Brueghel the Elder.

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