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Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, also known as The Bird Trap, is a panel painting in oils by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from 1565, now in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels. It shows a village scene where people skate on a frozen river, while on the right among trees and bushes, birds gather around a bird trap .
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He began work on the oil painting held by the National Gallery in 1911, and completed the work in the winter of 1913–1914. It measures 160 cm × 180.5 cm (63.0 in × 71.1 in). Sohlberg later continued to use the image in other media, such as colour lithography.
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The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century, as does landscape painting in general. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in earlier European painting since most of the subjects were religious. Gold ground paintings had no painted backgrounds and other narrative scenes had highly stylized trees and ...
A bird trap is seen to the left among other farm implements and the whole scene is overshadowed by a church to the left. Winter Landscape with Skaters is considered one of Avercamp's earliest works, and is painted in a style strongly reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap. Some ...
Fans of the late Carrie Fisher are mourning the loss of her beloved dog, Gary, who passed away at the age of 12. Known for his frequent appearances alongside Fisher at red carpet events, Gary ...
Landscape with Snow is a painting by Vincent van Gogh in 1888, believed to be one of the first paintings that he made in Arles.It is one of at least ten 1882 to 1889 oil and watercolor van Gogh paintings of a snowy landscape.