From Bosch to Bruegel - Uncovering Everyday Life
This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen uncovers everyday life in the sixteenth century: a world of brothels, skating parties, dancing peasant and quacks. 16th century society is depicted with irony and self-mockery in approximately forty paintings and as many prints. Some works contain a moral, but most are simply humorous. Nothing escaped the attention of these great artists. This is the first time that the extraordinary story of the origins of genre painting has been told in an exhibition.
The exhibition 鈥楩rom Bosch to Bruegel鈥� brings together 鈥榩olitically incorrect鈥� paintings and prints of the highest standard. Approximately forty sixteenth-century paintings and a similar number of prints will be brought to Rotterdam from important museums and private collections. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents the first ever exhibition devoted to sixteenth-century genre scenes, a radical departure from the traditions of religious art and portraiture.The museum will paintings from the pioneers of genre painting: Bosch, Lucas van Leyden and Quinten Massys and later masters such as Pieter Aertsen en Pieter Bruegel, supplemented by a broad range of sixteenth-century prints.
Hieronymus Bosch began painting scenes from everyday life around 1500. Why he did this is not known, but how he did it is phenomenal. The generation that followed him, including Lucas van Leyden, Marinus van Reymerswale, Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Quinten Massys, turned painting on its head. Pieter Bruegel the Elder鈥檚 scenes of peasant merrymaking and revelry form the conclusion to this pioneering period. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has succeeded in bringing works by Bosch and Bruegel to Rotterdam for the first time in their existence. Discover the irony, humour, wordplays and endless fascinating details in the works of this generation of artists in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.
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This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen uncovers everyday life in the sixteenth century: a world of brothels, skating parties, dancing peasant and quacks. 16th century society is depicted with irony and self-mockery in approximately forty paintings and as many prints. Some works contain a moral, but most are simply humorous. Nothing escaped the attention of these great artists. This is the first time that the extraordinary story of the origins of genre painting has been told in an exhibition.
The exhibition 鈥楩rom Bosch to Bruegel鈥� brings together 鈥榩olitically incorrect鈥� paintings and prints of the highest standard. Approximately forty sixteenth-century paintings and a similar number of prints will be brought to Rotterdam from important museums and private collections. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents the first ever exhibition devoted to sixteenth-century genre scenes, a radical departure from the traditions of religious art and portraiture.The museum will paintings from the pioneers of genre painting: Bosch, Lucas van Leyden and Quinten Massys and later masters such as Pieter Aertsen en Pieter Bruegel, supplemented by a broad range of sixteenth-century prints.
Hieronymus Bosch began painting scenes from everyday life around 1500. Why he did this is not known, but how he did it is phenomenal. The generation that followed him, including Lucas van Leyden, Marinus van Reymerswale, Jan Sanders van Hemessen and Quinten Massys, turned painting on its head. Pieter Bruegel the Elder鈥檚 scenes of peasant merrymaking and revelry form the conclusion to this pioneering period. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has succeeded in bringing works by Bosch and Bruegel to Rotterdam for the first time in their existence. Discover the irony, humour, wordplays and endless fascinating details in the works of this generation of artists in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.
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