Physical Description 1 painting : wood, oak ; 118 x 164.5 cm. Center detail of painting depicting battle between Carnival and Lent. “The Battle Between Carnival and Lent,” painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. On Brueghel's Battle Between Carnival & Lent: It is one of the central emblems of the early modern period, most famously illustrated in Peter Brueghel's eponymously named painting of 1559 in which pale, censorious Lent, virtually done in by its austerity, battles corpulent Carnival revelers in the streets of an imaginary Flemish city. “Battle Between Carnival and Lent” is a 17th-century oil painting by Jan Miense Molenaer in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. View The Battle Between Carnival and Lent (after Bruegel) (2017) By Cecily Brown; Archival pigment print on Hahnemüle paper; 18 x 24 in; Signed; Edition. Battle Between Carnival, or Mardi Gras, and Lent Art Print by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. H. Swarzwenski, Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, XLIX, February 1951, pp. The Battle between Carnival and Lent J. Decoen, ‘Cinq siècles d’Art à l’Éxposition de Bruxelles’, Clarté: art et art décoratif, July 1935, p. 8, illustrated, as attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder. X-ray imaging of a 1559 work, “The Battle Between Carnival and Lent,” reveals macabre features masked in the final product, including a corpse being dragged in … Bruegel painted The Fight Between Carnival and Lent while living in Antwerp in 1559.At this time, his interest in depicting contemporary communities was on the rise, culminating in some of his most well-known canvases, like Children's Games and The Dutch Proverbs.Like Children's Games, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is set in a sprawled out city square filled with people. The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil-on-panel work painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. King & McGaw has an extensive collection of art prints by established and emerging artists, which are all framed by hand in the UK. The Battle between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Brueghel The Younger. Find art you love and shop high-quality art prints, photographs, framed artworks and posters at Art… This painting depicts a common festival of the period, as celebrated in the Southern Netherlands. Carnival is the butcher riding a barrel on the bottom left, while Lent is the skinny blue robed figure on the bottom right. 5 and 8-9, fig. ‘The Battle between Carnival and Lent’ (1559), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Patrick Comerford My choice of a work of art for meditation this morning [6 Match 2014], the second day of Lent, is The Battle between Carnival and Lent (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca 1525-1569). From Artsy x Capsule Auctions, Cecily Brown, The Battle Between Carnival and Lent (after Bruegel) (2017), Archival pigment print on Hahnemüle paper, 18 × 2… Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt. There was no literal battle between the two seasons, which is what makes this painting a satire. 6, as a copy after Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Brueghel was commenting on how the Pure Church (or the Protestants) was in conflict with the rest of the Catholic Church.