The People's Census at Bethlehem
The story
Joseph leads the pregnant Mary into a snow-covered Flemish village at sundown, where peasants are lined up at the tax-collector's house. Bruegel painted this in 1566, quietly comparing the biblical census to the heavy taxes weighing on his own country.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Year
- 1566
- Period
- Renaissance
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
