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''The Wine of Saint Martin's Day'' is the largest painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is currently held in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, where it was identified as a Breugel original in 2010. Like much of Bruegel's work it depicts peasant life, in this case a festival known as St. Martin's Day, which involves drinking the first wine of the season. ==Description of painting== The picture depicts a popular festival celebrated on 11 November. Although it is not a religious painting as such, it contains references to Christianity. There is a roadside cross, which the peasants seemingly ignore, and among the many figures is a group which alludes to the legend of St Martin of Tours dividing his cloak to share it with a beggar. This idea of having an important theme relegated to the side of the painting is paralleled in, for example, ''Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'', which also highlights ordinary events. The picture has been dated on stylistic grounds to the 1560s. It is one of four surviving works by this artist executed in glue-size on linen (''Tüchlein''). By the early twenty-first century, when its owners took it to the Prado for restoration, the painting was not in a good state of conservation .〔 This source describes the painting as a canvas, but the fabric is a finer one than this word implies.〕 However, this is not surprising as the fragile medium tends to cause conservation problems. (On the other hand, ''The Blind Leading the Blind'', one of the other three, is in relatively good condition). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wine of Saint Martin's Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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