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The Peasant Wedding
Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Peasant Wedding is a genre painting[1] by the Dutch and FlemishRenaissance painter and printmakerPieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life.
It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Pieter Bruegel the Elder enjoyed painting peasants and different aspects of their lives in so many of his paintings that he has been called Peasant-Bruegel, but he was an intellectual, and many of his paintings have a symbolic meaning as well as a moral aspect.[2][3][4]
Scene
The bride is in front of the green textile wall-hanging, with a paper-crown hung above her head.
She is also wearing a crown and sitting passively amidst the hearty eating and drinking around her.
The fight between carnival and lentThe bridegroom is not immediately obvious. The feast is in a barn in the summertime; two sheaves of grain with a rake recalls the work of harvesting, and the hard peasant life. Porters carry plate