A particular party has been kept alive at the Detroit Institute of Arts since 1930: “The Wedding Dance” (1566) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The revelers, an ebullient crowd of 129 16th-century ...

In 1566, Pieter Bruegel the Elder completed "The Wedding Dance," an animated depiction of no-holds-barred carousing that was instantly popular and copied -- drunken peasants, bulging codpieces and all ...

THE MUSIC is playing and the ale flowing freely as guests throng into a barn. Two cooks bring soup to a dining table crowded with men, women, dogs and children. It is a wedding, but the bride’s calm ...

The exhibition of Bruegel the Elder’s drawings and the engraved prints derived from them at the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a true feast for both connoisseurs and iconographers. 1 The exhibit is ...