Biography of the painting harvest

The painting "Harvest" Peter Bruegel the Elder painted in the year. Peter Bruegel Senior. Harvest, Peter Bruegel Elder. The harvest, for a long time believed that the picture was written not by Peter Bruegel the eldest himself, but by one of his students or followers. Consider the picture that Peter Bruegel the Elder wrote four years before his death. At first glance, the picture does not contain anything interesting.

The picture depicts an ordinary day of late summer, the time of the harvest. Some of the characters work, some rest. It seems to be an unpretentious picture from the life of peasants. But this is only at first glance. Peter Bruegel the eldest managed to place not just a story from the life of agricultural labor workers, but a whole novel dedicated to the harvest. Indeed, in one picture, the painter placed all the stages of the process of harvesting.

The picture "harvest" must be considered sequentially, which we will do. It is not difficult to determine that by the time of the beginning of the actions depicted in the picture, the cereals were ripe and the time has come to harvest. Reapers are accepted for business. A fragment of the picture Fragment of the picture is difficult to work reapers. Indeed, during the time of Bruegel, there was no talk of any combines.

All manually, with the help of braids and sickles. In the yard is a hot day, workers are tormented by thirst. Therefore, next to them there is always a jug of water, which they hide from the sun among the ears. And so that the water does not end, you have to go for a new portion to the village. A fragment of the picture but you can not work without a break. During hard work, a break is needed.

To relax or have a bite. A fragment of the picture of the food of the peasants is not intricate: bread, milk, fruits. Skaty and cut ears are then tied into sheaves and left for drying. A fragment of the picture after drying them is carried away from the field. A fragment of the picture is folded on a cart, which a hardworking wave will deliver to the village.

A fragment of the picture Fragment of the picture and the village lives its life. But it is important that during the harvest, only children and old people remained in the village. The rest went to field work. A fragment of the picture is wrapped in the same grain transported further. A fragment of the picture is delivered to the port where it is loaded on the ship and floats into distant cities.

A fragment of the picture Fragment of the picture like this Peter Bruegel the Elder in one picture told the history of the harvest of cereals, emphasizing in it the importance of each stage.