The Fake History Hunter has an insightful post on Substack about Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Farmers - or the Peasants - Dance dated to 1567 and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
The Farmers Dance - De boerensdans
Image: Wikipedia
The author explores the picture and the figures shown within it not just for its own sake but, as the title of his site indicates, to show how the ‘fake history’ of so many depictions in cinema, television and AI imagery imagines life in the past. Whilst sixteenth century people did not have the domestic equipment and conveniences that we take for granted it does not mean they lived their lives in unremitting dirt and squalor, drudgery and misery, clad in ragged grey or black.
By entering into the scene of rustic enjoyment on a saint’s day the author opens up the mid-sixteenth century world for his readers, and shows us a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar.
The article can be read at Art review: ‘De boerendans’ (the farmer’s or peasant’s dance), Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1567.
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