For the meaning of other masterpieces, see: Famous Paintings Analyzed. Art Education To appreciate Flemish painters like Pieter Brugel, see our educational essays: Art Evaluation and also: How to Appreciate Paintings.mong the greatest genre paintings of the Northern Renaissance, and the most famous of all Flemish illustrations of peasant life, the work exemplifies the artist's late-style, with its use of monumental Italianate figures.
(Units) a unit of distance used in astronomy equal to the mean distance between the earth and the sun. 1 astronomical unit is equivalent to 1.495 Ã 1011 metres or about 9.3 Ã 107 miles.
One astronomical unit equals about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles). Another way of looking at it: the astronomical unit is a bit more than 8 light-minutes in distance. Quite by coincidence, the number of astronomical units in one light-year and the number of inches in one mile are virtually the same. For general reference, there are 63,000 astronomical units in one light-year, and 63,000 inches in one mile. This wonderful coincidence enables us to bring the light-year down to Earth.