Abstract
A sixteenth-century Dutch master's carefully orchestrated winter landscape may have benefited from his knowledge of geographers' techniques of the time, explains Martin Kemp. Pieter Bruegel's Winter (1565), also called Hunters in the Snow, is one of a series called The Months. The series depicts Flemish peasants, in the main, going about their seasonal tasks in seasonal landscapes. Bruegel had developed a new way of looking at the countryside and its inhabitants that reflects a remarkable understanding of how light behaves in nature. And as Martin Kemp points out in his analysis of Winter, this advance in technique coincided with a new way of seeing the world in maps, practised by among others, Bruegel's friend, the geographer Abraham Ortelius.
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