Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” (1559) (image via Wikimedia Commons) But that crush of humanity is not quite what draws the spectator’s attention.

Malo de Lussac entered the tiny, dimly lit TV room in October, expecting the unremarkable as he assessed the value of the art and artifacts in his new client’s home in northern France.

De Lussac, luckily, went ahead and sent the painting to a Bruegel expert anyway. In December, they heard back that the painting was actually the work of Pieter Bruegel the Younger, the first-born ...

After a challenging year in which international galleries, auction houses and museums have been forced to scale back their operations and make redundancies on an alarming scale, a slower, more ...

Unless you are a miserly curmudgeon, such as Charles Dickens imagined as the protagonist of his famous Christmas tale, the likelihood is that you have a favorite Old Master painting that depicts ...

A home appraiser in France spotted what he thought was a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Younger. The client told him it was clearly a fake. Turns out the 400-year-old painting was authentic.

Between them, Antwerp's Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Ashmolean in Oxford own some of the most "outstanding" holdings of 16th and 17th century Flemish drawings, said Jackie Wullschläger in the FT.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, born around 1525 in Brabant, now Belgium, is renowned for his detailed landscapes and genre scenes. Bruegel's early career included apprenticeships and travels through ...