Landscape museum

Hunters in the snow - Pieter Brugel

The museum

Landscape Museum

Curators

Santi Veronica, Battistelli Emma, Calandra Evelin

Description of the museum

Our museum contains landscape paintings and they are arranged in chronological order. The museum collects various types of landscape paintings: mountain, maritime and urban landscape. The name of the museum takes inspiration from the works located inside. The works come from different places: Urbino, Rome, Austria, France, New York, while the collection is located precisely in New York in the USA, in the museum “Moma”. You can come to visit our museum to see the different types of landscape paintings through the ages. The museum is divided into various rooms: in the first one there are “The Nativity” and “Hunters in the snow”.

In the second room there are “Landscape with escape of Egypt” and “Views of the towers Urbino”

In the third room there are “Mountainous landscape of the environs of aix” and “Blackwell’s Island”

Author: Pieter Bruegel

Title: Hunters in the snow

Date: 1565

Material and technique: oil on table

Size: 117 x 162cm

The most important work of the collection is Hunters in the snow, because it is very characteristic. The painting shows a wintry scene in which three hunters are returning from an expedition together with their dogs. It seems that the outing was not successful the dogs appears downtrodden and miserable. One man carries the meager corpse of a fox illustrating the paucity of the hunt. In front of the hunters in the snow there are the footprints of a rabbit or hare. The colors are muted whites and greys, trees are bare and smoke comes out from the chimneys. In the background there are jagged mountain. The landscape itself is a flat-bottomed valley and a river meanders through it. There is a watermill with it’s frozen stiff.