The Miracle in the Snow: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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It's snowing! The exhibition The Miracle in the Snow -Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Roemerholz' focuses on the first painting in European art that captured falling snowflakes. The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow is the single painting by Bruegel in Switzerland. Being one of the most important Flemish painters of the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel revolutionised art by his innovative thematic and pictorial solutions and became an inspiration for all subsequent generations of artists. Rarely displayed prints and recent technological discoveries try to trace the secret of his paintings' enduring and fascinating immediacy. The cabinet exhibition was realised together with an international team of experts and is the result of a collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

Kerstin Richter is director of the Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Roemerholz' in Winterthur, Switzerland.

"This exhibition catalogue focuses on Pieter Brueghel the Elder's Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (1563), part of the Oskar Reinhart Collection in Winterthur, Switzerland, which was thoroughly examined in collaboration with the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna. . . Technical analysis also revealed Brueghel's painting method in the preparatory layers, underdrawing, palette, paint layers, and brushwork-especially his unique method of painting falling snow, seen in numerous photographic details. Scholars can now fill in gaps in Brueghel's painting career in Brussels, when he shifted to small, detailed conversation pieces made for private patrons." * Choice *