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I Am Pieter Brueghel's Waffle Man

I Am Pieter Brueghel's Waffle Man

Slumming in the salons of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

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Jul 02, 2021
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Gloomy Day (1565), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Yesterday Matt and I spent a long morning in the Kunsthistorisches Museum here in Vienna. It was glorious! I discovered a painting I had never before seen reproduced anywhere. It’s “Gloomy Day” by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. It’s about a village dealing with early spring storms. Notice the destruction all ab…

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