I Am Pieter Brueghel's Waffle Man

Slumming in the salons of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

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…