絵の中に、人、人、人!遊ぶ子どもたち、雪の中を帰る狩人、結婚式でごちそうを食べる村人。16世紀のフランドル(今のベルギーなど)の画家ピーテル・ブリューゲル(父)は、ふつうの人々の暮らしを、細かく、ユーモアたっぷりに描きました。じっくり見るほど新しい発見がある、まるで「さがし絵」の元祖です。
People, people, people! Children playing, hunters walking home through snow, villagers feasting at a wedding. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a 16th-century painter from Flanders (now mainly Belgium), painted ordinary people's lives in detail and with plenty of humor. The longer you look, the more you find. He is like the grandfather of search-and-find pictures.
100をこえることわざを一枚に描いた絵、80をこえる遊びが描かれた絵、天までとどきそうなバベルの塔。今に残る絵は約40点しかありませんが、その一枚一枚が、当時の人々の笑い声や生活のにおいまで伝えてくれます。虫めがねを持ったつもりで、絵の中の村を探検しましょう!
One painting shows more than 100 proverbs, another more than 80 games, and another a Tower of Babel reaching for the sky. Only about 40 of his paintings survive, but each one brings us the laughter and everyday life of people long ago. Imagine you have a magnifying glass, and let's explore the villages in his pictures!












