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| The Wedding Dance | |
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| Artist | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
| Year | 1566[1] |
| Medium | oil-on-panel[2] |
| Dimensions | 119.4 cm × 157.5 cm (47 in × 62 in) |
| Location | Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan |
The Wedding Dance (sometimes known as The Village Dance) is a 1566 oil-on-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Owned by the museum of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, the work was discovered by its director in England in 1930, and brought to Detroit. It is believed to be one of a set of three Bruegel works from around the same time: The Wedding Dance, The Peasant Wedding (1567) and The Peasant Dance (1569).
The painting depicts 125 wedding guests. As was customary in the Renaissance period, the brides wore black and men wore codpieces. Voyeurism is depicted throughout the entire art work; dancing was disapproved of by the authorities and the church, and the painting can be seen as both a critique and comic depiction of a stereotypical oversexed, overindulgent, peasant class of the times.
- ^ "Pieter Bruegel the Elder". History of Art:Renaissance. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
- ^ "Pieter Bruegel the Elder". The Athenaeum. Retrieved June 4, 2012.