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Recent Jan Brueghel Exhibitions

'Brueghel: The Paintings of Jan Brueghel the Elder' at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich

22 March - 13 June 2013

An exhibition focused around the paintings of Jan Brueghel the Elder at Munich's Alte Pinakothek ran from 22 March to 16 June 2013.  The exhibition, called ‘Brueghel: The Paintings of Jan Brueghel the Elder,’ also featured collaborations such as a Madonna and Child in a Flower Garland (with Peter Paul Rubens) and the Seasons allegory cycle (with Hendrik van Balen).  

Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens Vigin and Child in a Flower Garland (1617) Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The exhibition drew from collections throughout Europe and included works by a number of artists associated with Jan Brueghel the Elder, including Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan Brueghel the Younger and Jan van Kassel. 

A catalogue, Brueghel: Gemalde von Jan Brueghel D.A. has been published.  

‘Rubens, Brueghel, Lorrain:  Northern Landscape from the Museo del Prado’ at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon

3 December 2013 - 30 March 2014

A recent exhibition at Lisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, ‘Rubens, Brueghel, Lorrain:  Northern Landscape from the Museo del Prado’ presents 57 landscapes from the Prado’s collection, included Peasant Wedding Feast and the Allegory of the Four Elements by Jan Brueghel the Elder.  The exhibition, which also included Brueghel’s Vision of St. Hubert collaboration with Peter Paul Rubens, ran from 3 December 2013 to 30 March 2014. 

Jan Brueghel the Elder Peasant Wedding Feast (1623) Museo del Prado, Madrid

An exhibition catalogue, El paisaje nórdico en el Prado: Rubens, Brueghel, Lorena by Teresa Posada Kubissa, has been published by the Museo del Prado. 

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janbrueghel.net goes public!

Information is easy to find on the internet; authority is not. Officially going public on April 17, 2014, the scholarly research website janbrueghel.net offers authority and accessibility. The creation of U.C. Berkeley art history professor Elizabeth Honig and a team of researchers, the wiki-format site has been three years in the making. 

janbrueghel.net provides scholars the only complete English-language resource on the 17th century painter Jan Brueghel, organizing the hundreds of paintings, drawings, and oil sketches he and his studio produced. Individual pages within the site document each object’s physical data, provenance, and bibliography. Visitors can browse the site by location and genre, while discovering related works through an extensive array of keywords. For more specialized scholars, the site enables dialogue and original research on Brueghel’s many interrelated images. Accompanying every object page, a discussion page invites registered users to voice opinions or add information about a painting, drawing or oil sketch. Registered users can also form a Library of works for personal study, using the site’s Image Investigation Tool for detailed visual analysis. Designed especially to address the complex nature of Brueghel’s art, the IIT enables users to make a transparency of one picture, resize it, and overlay it onto a second work. This tool, as it continues to develop, will advance the study of visual correlation and pattern use in the early modern workshop environment. We are excited to provide the platform for researchers around the globe to delve deeper into the works of Jan Brueghel and his collaborators. 

Visitors are welcome to browse the site’s many features without registered user status. However, scholars, curators, and art dealers are encouraged to contact our team at janbrueghel@gmail.com to request access to our research resources including the library feature and IIT. Our registered users contribute signed posts to the latest scholarship on Brueghel on our discussion pages.

janbrueghel.net is constantly expanding! If having 900+ works of art by Jan Brueghel wasn't already enough, researchers from the UC Berkeley based team have begun the data collection and design process for a constellation of related sites (including one dedicated to Jan Brueghel’s famous father, Pieter Bruegel). A generous grant from the NSF will allow the project to culminate in the umbrella site brueghelfamily.net. This online synthesis will draw together data on the art of the extended Brueghel family. 

In gratitude to our dedicated collaborators and funders: The RKD (The Hague), the Rubenianum (Antwerp), Johnny van Haeften and John Davies (London) and the app ArtAuthority. Generous funding has come from CITRIS, UCHRI, The Townsend Center, and UC Berkeley’s URAP program.