
Hunters in the Snow
1565 · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Three hunters come home over the hill with one thin catch while villagers skate below. Bruegel painted it for a series on the months.
★ 9.4

Three hunters come home over the hill with one thin catch while villagers skate below. Bruegel painted it for a series on the months.

Twelve meters of wall where the whole business of execution goes on at once, one thief still being hauled upright at the side.

One man lies flat on his back with his mouth open while the others cut wheat. Late summer, from the same series of months.

Hercules bolts from Vice toward Virtue and gashes his leg on the thorns of the harder road as he goes.

Divine Wisdom looks up and Hercules looks down at a scatter of crowns and jewels, which is the entire argument of the picture.