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.
That distance - the length from the Earth's center to the Sun's center - is known as an astronomical unit or AU. One AU is one trip from the center of the Earth to the center of the Sun. Astronomers took (and still take) advantage of this distance to help them measure how far away stars are from the Earth.