Did you know? The DIA’s "The Wedding Dance" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of only a few of his paintings in this country. Coming 2019-2020, the DIA will host an exhibition about this spectacular painting to celebrate its importance and honor the 450th anniversary of the artist’s death. In preparation, the DIA's conservation team will be closely studying the paint, technique and history of the painting in the lab for the next two weeks. Follow our #WheresTheBruegel posts for daily updates while the work is off view through June 19!
As seen in these photos, our collections management team safely de-installed the painting and moved it to the conservation lab earlier today, where Paintings Conservator Ellen Hanspach-Bernal and Graduate Intern Becca Goodman are examining it.
“In a unique way Bruegel, like Leonardo, Arcimboldo, or Rabelais, visualizes the fascination for metamorphosis and change that were so characteristic of the sixteenth century – but at the same time so timeless.”
Tine Meganck
PhD, Art Historian
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/bruegel/
Our Partners
Bruegel / Unseen Masterpieces / is the result of a partnership between major international museums.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Bruxelles, Belgium
Museum of fine arts
Bundapest, Hungary
Statens Museum for Kunst
Copenhague, Denmark
Royal Collection Trust
London, United Kingdom
The Frick Collection
New York, United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
London, United Kingdom
Staatliche Museen / Gemaldegalerie
Berlin, Germany
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