Peter Bruegel and Leonardo da Vinci

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The paper analyzes the similarities and differences between the northern Flemish schools of painting with the Italian schools of the 16th century. The writer explains how, by thoroughly analyzing the work of Bruegel, one can realize how Italian art interplays with his work in painting composition. In essence, by collectively presenting the work of Leonardo da Vinci, the differing aspects of iconography, form, symmetry, color, and anatomy can be found on similar and differing levels within these painting styles.

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"Da Vinci's "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" (1510) there are signs of more action in how Anne plays with the child Jesus, but the abstraction of the human figure is not found. Bruegel decidedly works with sagging facial contours of the three magi, and they do not rely on the exactitudes of facial features, as do those Da Vinci uses in the face of Mary or Anne."

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