| 词条 | The Census at Bethlehem |
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| image_file=Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Census at Bethlehem - WGA03379.jpg | title=The Census at Bethlehem | artist=Pieter Bruegel the Elder | year=1566[1] | type=Oil on panel | height_metric=116 | width_metric=164.5 | metric_unit=cm | imperial_unit=in | city=Brussels | museum=Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium }} The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) is an oil-on-panel by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1566. It is signed and measures about 115,5 cm × 164,5 cm. It is currently held and exhibited at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, which acquired it in 1902. It is one of the first paintings in western art to feature a significant snow landscape and was painted in the aftermath of the winter of 1565, which was one of the harshest winters on record. DescriptionThe painting shows a Flemish village in winter at sundown. A group of people is gathered at a building on the left. A sign bearing the Habsburg double-headed eagle is visible on the building. Other people are making their way to the same building, including the figures of Joseph and the pregnant Virgin Mary on a donkey. A pig is being slaughtered. People are going about their daily business in the cold, children are shown playing with toys on the ice and having snowball fights. At the very centre of the painting is a spoked wheel, sometimes interpreted as being a reference to the wheel of fortune. To the right, a man in a small hut is shown holding a clapper, a warning to keep away from leprosy. Leprosy was endemic in that part of Europe when the painting was created. There is a begging bowl in front of the hut. As he often did, Bruegel treats a biblical story as a contemporary event. And once again, reference to particular political events has been adduced - in this case, the severity of the Spanish administration in the southern Netherlands.[2] However, Bruegel may well be making a more general criticism of bureaucratic methods.[3] The events depicted are described in Luke 2, 1-5: {{quotation|And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered... So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.|Luke 2:1-5, NKJV[4]}} This is a rare subject in previous Netherlandish art. The ruined castle in the backgroundsee 2nd detail is based on the towers and gates of Amsterdam.[5] CopiesPieter Brueghel the Younger and his studio made dozens of copies of the painting after his father's death, one of which was sold at auction for $10 million in 2013. Another copy, dated from 1610, is also at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Notes1. ^Signed "BRVEGEL 1566" 2. ^Under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, the Netherlands region was part of the Seventeen Provinces, which also included most of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and some land in France and Germany. 3. ^Cf. Pietro Allegretti. Brueghel. Milan:Skira, 2003. {{ISBN|0-00-001088-X}} {{it}} 4. ^From online Luke 2 5. ^Cf. Max Seidel, Roger H. Marijnissen. Bruegel. Pt.2, Random House, 1985. {{ISBN|0-517-44772-X}} Further reading
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