"Which Dutch Renaissance artist painted ""The Hunters in the Snow"", in 1565?"
The Hunters in the Snow The Hunters in the Snow The Hunters in the Snow (), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The painting is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. This scene is set in the depths of winter during December/January. "The Hunters in the Snow", and the series to which it belongs, are in the medieval and early Renaissance tradition of the Labours of
The Hunters in the Snow of modernist poet William Carlos Williams's ekphrastic poem "The Hunter in The Snow." "Hunters in the Snow" is used extensively in Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's films "Solaris" (1972) and "The Mirror" (1974), and in Lars von Trier's 2011 film "Melancholia". It appears also in Alain Tanner's film "Dans la ville blanche" (1983). It was an inspiration for Roy Andersson's 2014 film "A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence", and it is the basis for the first frame of Abbas Kiarostami's "24 Frames" (2017). The surviving "Months of the Year cycle" are: The Hunters in the Snow The Hunters