Wedding Dance Essay

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The Wedding Dance The Wedding Dance is a Pieter Brueghel the Elder masterpiece from the year 1566. This painting “The Wedding Dance” was an early European painting from the Netherland area or for better terms the Dutch. In “The Wedding Dance” Pieter Brueghel the Elder depicts a peasant wedding celebration from the time period of 1566. In 1930 William Valentiner went to Europe to purchase some paintings for the Detroit Institute of Art. William Valentiner seen “The Wedding Dance” and knew right away that this was a Pieter Brueghel the Elder original. Although there was no authentication to the painting William Valentiner knew it was original. William then purchased “The Wedding Dance” and brought it back to Detroit where it was cleaned and restored. This painting was the only painting that was ever purchased without authentication for the Detroit Institute of Art. William Valentiner later had the painting authenticated. Peter Brueghel was famous for his depictions of peasant life and enormous figures which in this painting he gives his best rendition. Pieter Brueghel was also famous for his paintings depicting how peasants worked, dressed, ate and in this case celebrated. In “The Wedding Dance” Pieter Brueghel gives a charismatic display of peasant life in the 16th century. In the front of this painting you see how all of the characters are large in stature and in background they are very small this gives an illusion that the people are farther away. The Wedding Dance is described as being earthy coloring with brown, red, beige, dull blue and black. The red coloring is dull not bright and is not overbearing. The browns all complement each other with the white and beige. The black represents the bride; the dull blues are faint but compliment the painting in a minor but significant way. The dull blues I believe are placed in this painting to get your eyes to
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