Breughel

“Rubens comes in and does some figures, and then Jan Breughel comes in and does the horses, the dog and the lion, because he’s ‘Mister Animal’,” Honig says.

Listen to how Furtwängler handles the flood of themes near the end, like a party scene out of Breughel, every detail immaculate within the chaos.

James Ensor, the late-19th-century Belgian painter who helped shape Modernism, was an interpreter of a vast array of sources, from traditional masters like Bosch and Breughel to Courbet and Manet.

This terrific account places Breughel, Vermeer and Rembrandt against the context of the upheavals of their time.

He's describing the Breughel painting, `Landscape With the Fall of Icarus.'