Editing Pieter Bruegel the Elder (section)

==References in other works==
===In literature===
[[File:Landschaft mit Sturz des Ikarus Pieter Breughel d Ä.jpg|thumb|''[[Landscape with the Fall of Icarus]]'', probably an early copy of Bruegel's lost original, c. 1558]]
His painting ''[[Landscape with the Fall of Icarus]]'', now thought only to survive in copies, is the subject of the final lines of the 1938 poem "[[Musée des Beaux Arts (poem)|Musée des Beaux Arts]]" by [[W. H. Auden]]:

<blockquote><poem>
In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
</poem></blockquote>

It also was the subject of a 1960 poem "[[Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem)|Landscape with the Fall of Icarus]]" by [[William Carlos Williams]], and was mentioned in [[Nicolas Roeg]]'s 1976 science fiction film ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth (film)|The Man Who Fell to Earth]]''. Williams' final collection of poetry alludes to several of Bruegel's works.

[[File:Pieter Bruegel de Oude - Twee geketend apen.jpg|thumb|''[[Two Monkeys (Bruegel)|Two Monkeys]]'', 1562, oil on panel]]

Bruegel's painting ''[[Two Monkeys (Bruegel)|Two Monkeys]]'' was the subject of [[Wisława Szymborska]]'s 1957 poem, "Brueghel's Two Monkeys".<ref>{{cite book|last=Szymborska|first=Wislawa|title=View With a Grain of Sand|year=1995|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|page=3}}</ref>

[[Seamus Heaney]] refers to Brueghel in his poem "[[The Seed Cutters]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Heaney |first=Seamus |author-link=Seamus Heaney |title=Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 |date=22 December 2010 |publisher=Faber & Faber |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPvJn4dSIqwC&pg=PA60 |isbn=978-0-571-26279-3}}</ref>  David Jones alludes to the painting ''The Blind Leading the Blind'' in his World War One prose-poem ''[[In Parenthesis]]'': "the stumbling dark of the blind, that Breughel knew about – ditch circumscribed".

[[Michael Frayn]]'s novel ''[[Headlong (Frayn novel)|Headlong]]'', imagines a lost panel from the 1565 ''Months'' series resurfacing unrecognised, which triggers a conflict between an art (and money) lover and the boor who possesses it.  Much thought is spent on Bruegel's secret motives for painting it.

Author [[Don Delillo]] uses Bruegel's painting ''[[The Triumph of Death]]'' in his novel ''[[Underworld (DeLillo novel)|Underworld]]'' and his short story "[[Pafko at the Wall]]". It is believed that the painting ''[[The Hunters in the Snow]]'' influenced the classic [[Hunters in the Snow (short story)|short story with the same title]] written by [[Tobias Wolff]] and featured in ''In the Garden of the North American Martyrs''.

In the foreword to his novel ''The Folly of the World'', author [[Jesse Bullington]] explains that Bruegel's painting ''[[Netherlandish Proverbs]]'' inspired the title and also the plot to some extent. Various sections are introduced with a proverb depicted in the painting that alludes to a plot element.

Poet [[Sylvia Plath]] refers to Bruegel's painting ''[[The Triumph of Death]]'' in her poem "Two Views of a Cadaver Room" from her 1960 collection ''[[The Colossus and Other Poems]]''.

===In film===
Russian film director [[Andrei Tarkovsky]] refers to Bruegel's paintings in his films several times, notably in ''[[Solaris (1972 film)|Solaris]]'' (1972) and ''[[The Mirror (1975 film)|The Mirror]]'' (1975).

Director [[Lars von Trier]] also uses Bruegel's paintings in his film ''[[Melancholia (2011 film)|Melancholia]]'' (2011). This was used as a reference to Tarkovsky's ''Solaris'', a movie with related themes.

His 1564 painting ''[[The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel)|The Procession to Calvary]]'' inspired the 2011 Polish-Swedish film co-production ''[[The Mill and the Cross]]'', in which Bruegel is played by [[Rutger Hauer]].  Bruegel's paintings in the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] are shown in the 2012 film, ''[[Museum Hours]]'', where his work is discussed in casual conversations between a security guard at the museum and a visitor from Montreal visiting a hospitalised relative, and taking time off between hospital visits to go to the museum. Some attention is given to tour guides making presentations about some of the Bruegel paintings.