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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent" style="width: 22em; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">The Suicide of Saul</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_d._%C3%84._Selbstmord_Sauls.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Pieter_Bruegel_d._%C3%84._Selbstmord_Sauls.jpg/450px-Pieter_Bruegel_d._%C3%84._Selbstmord_Sauls.jpg" decoding="async" width="450" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Pieter_Bruegel_d._%C3%84._Selbstmord_Sauls.jpg/675px-Pieter_Bruegel_d._%C3%84._Selbstmord_Sauls.jpg 1.5x, 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class="infobox-data">33.5 cm × 55 cm (13.2 in × 22 in)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kunsthistorisches_Museum" title="Kunsthistorisches Museum">Kunsthistorisches Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Suicide of Saul</b></i> is an oil-on-panel painting by the <a href="/wiki/Dutch_and_Flemish_Renaissance_painting" title="Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting">Flemish Renaissance</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder" title="Pieter Bruegel the Elder">Pieter Bruegel the Elder</a>, painted in 1562. It is in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/Kunsthistorisches_Museum" title="Kunsthistorisches Museum">Kunsthistorisches Museum</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>. </p><p><i>The Suicide of Saul</i> is an early attempt by Bruegel to reconcile landscape and figure painting. Despite the scale of the subject, at 33.5 cm × 55 cm (13.2 in × 22 in) it is rather small compared to his later landscape subjects, but has an "astonishingly dense and highly dramatic composition".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If it is compared with one of his last works, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magpie_on_the_Gallows" title="The Magpie on the Gallows">The Magpie on the Gallows</a></i> of 1568, its weaknesses are apparent: the foreground and background are not yet reconciled and the jutting outcrop of rock in the centre <sup>see 2nd detail</sup> is a <a href="/wiki/Mannerism" title="Mannerism">Mannerist</a> device which one may see again in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Procession_to_Calvary_(Bruegel)" title="The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel)">The Procession to Calvary</a></i>. However, the distant <a href="/wiki/World_landscape" title="World landscape">world landscape</a> is seen through a shimmering haze, which seems to have the effect of emphasizing the foreground detail, and this does represent a new stage in the evolution of Bruegel's depiction of <a href="/wiki/Landscape_painting" title="Landscape painting">naturalistic landscape</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This appears to be the first time this subject was put in a painting, although there had been works in other media, such as manuscript miniatures.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The painting has been cut down, with a thin strip of c. 1cm removed along the bottom, and a rather wider one, c. 4cm, along the top. These portions were later re-added, with new pieces of fruitwood panel, in Vienna in 178-82. The transition is easily visible in the paint today. A third fallen figure with Saul and the armour-bearer was included in the <a href="/wiki/Underdrawing" title="Underdrawing">underdrawing</a>, but never painted.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Suicide_of_Saul&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_(detail)_-_WGA3328.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3328.jpg/230px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3328.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3328.jpg/345px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3328.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3328.jpg/460px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3328.jpg 2x" data-file-width="609" data-file-height="686" /></a><figcaption>Detail 1; Saul</figcaption></figure> <p>An inscription on the painting identifies the subject as the rarely represented scene of the suicide of <a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a> after his defeat by the <a href="/wiki/Philistines" title="Philistines">Philistines</a>. These events are described in <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Samuel" title="Books of Samuel">1 Samuel 31, 1-5</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p> Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Then the Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons. The battle became fierce against Saul. The archers hit him, and he was severely wounded by the archers. </p><p>Then Saul said to his armorbearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and abuse me." </p><p> But his armorbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and fell on it. And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword, and died with him.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>1 Samuel 31:1-5, <a href="/wiki/NKJV" class="mw-redirect" title="NKJV">NKJV</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Bruegel follows the biblical account closely, representing different parts of the battle in different areas. At the left he has chosen the highly dramatic moment of the death of the armourbearer, just as Philistines are approaching below the rock platform.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup>See 1st detail</sup> </p><p>Saul's death was interpreted as a punishment of <a href="/wiki/Pride" title="Pride">pride</a> - it was among the proud that <a href="/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dante</a> met <a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Purgatorio" title="Purgatorio">Purgatorio</a></i> - and this may account for Bruegel's choice of such an unusual subject.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saul was placed in the 2nd Terrace of <a href="/wiki/Purgatory" title="Purgatory">Purgatory</a>, with King <a href="/wiki/Nimrod" title="Nimrod">Nimrod</a>, the subject of another Bruegel painting (in two versions, 1563-65), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tower_of_Babel_(Bruegel)" title="The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)">The Tower of Babel</a></i>. In 1563 Bruegel also painted <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels" title="The Fall of the Rebel Angels">The Fall of the Rebel Angels</a></i>; <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer</a> was also mentioned by Dante as an example of pride.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_(detail)_-_WGA3327.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3327.jpg/230px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3327.jpg" decoding="async" width="230" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3327.jpg/345px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3327.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3327.jpg/460px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Suicide_of_Saul_%28detail%29_-_WGA3327.jpg 2x" data-file-width="549" data-file-height="685" /></a><figcaption>Detail 2</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Erasmus" title="Erasmus">Erasmian</a> tendencies in <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_humanism" title="Renaissance humanism">Renaissance humanism</a>, which may have reflected Bruegel's views, regarded <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> narratives as only having "moral value" if they could be understood as "allegories with a universal significance"; here the punishment of pride.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As with most of his subjects taken from the Bible, Bruegel treats Saul's suicide as a contemporary event, showing the armies in 16th century armour. The Philistine army is divided into different brigades, some shown as contemporary <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_army" class="mw-redirect" title="Ottoman army">Turks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his <i><a href="/wiki/The_Battle_of_Alexander_at_Issus" title="The Battle of Alexander at Issus">The Battle of Alexander at Issus</a></i> of 1529, the German painter <a href="/wiki/Albrecht_Altdorfer" title="Albrecht Altdorfer">Albrecht Altdorfer</a> had shown the clash of the forces of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a> and <a href="/wiki/Darius_III_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Darius III of Persia">Darius</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Issus" title="Battle of Issus">Battle of Issus</a> in this way, and in many other respects, too, Bruegel is in Altdorfer's debt,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> particularly in the representation of the tiny, massed figures of the soldiers and their forests of lances.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bruegel may also have looked at the battle-scenes of another German painter, <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Breu_the_Younger" title="Jörg Breu the Younger">Jörg Breu the Younger</a>, and at a now lost battle-scene by the <a href="/wiki/Antwerp" title="Antwerp">Antwerp</a> landscape painter <a href="/wiki/Joachim_Patinir" title="Joachim Patinir">Joachim Patinir</a> which is mentioned by <a href="/wiki/Biographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Biographer">biographer</a> <a href="/wiki/Karel_van_Mander" title="Karel van Mander">Karel van Mander</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Bruegel drawing, <i>River Valley viewed from a Hill</i> (cat. no. 58, in the 2019 Vienna exhibition), has considerable similaries with the landscape here.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Provenance">Provenance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Suicide_of_Saul&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Provenance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Little is known. In 1640 it was possibly in the collection of <a href="/wiki/Rubens" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubens">Rubens</a> in Antwerp, who had other Bruegels, such as the small <i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Virgin_(Bruegel)" title="The Death of the Virgin (Bruegel)">The Death of the Virgin</a></i>. However, the catalogue entry describes the work as a <a href="/wiki/Watercolour" class="mw-redirect" title="Watercolour">watercolour</a>, suggesting either that it was a different work, or referring to the very detailed painting, as in <a href="/wiki/Manuscript_illumination" class="mw-redirect" title="Manuscript illumination">manuscript illumination</a>. By 1781 it had entered the Austrian imperial collection, then mostly collected in the <a href="/wiki/Belvedere,_Vienna" title="Belvedere, Vienna">Belvedere, Vienna</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this later passed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Suicide_of_Saul&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder" title="List of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder">List of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Suicide_of_Saul&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">signed at bottom left: "<small>SAUL XXXI CAPIT BRVEGEL M.CCCCC.LXII</small>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cf. Pietro Allegretti, <i>Brueghel</i>, Skira, Milano 2003. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-001088-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-00-001088-X">0-00-001088-X</a> <span class="languageicon">(in Italian)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">From online <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2031,%201-5&version=NKJV">NKJV, 1 Samuel 31</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cf. Dante's <i>Canto</i> XII, vv.40-42: <i>O Saul, transfixed by your own sword, how dead / you seemed to lie on Mount Gilboa's plain, / which since that time has known no rain or dew.</i> (transl. M. Musa, Penguin Books, 1985).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wied, 120</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wied, 120</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Though it seems he could not have seen the <i>Battle of Alexander</i>, then as now in <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Some of the great battle scenes of <a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(film_series)" title="The Lord of the Rings (film series)"><i>The Lord of the Rings</i> film trilogy</a> are strongly reminiscent of this composition's battle deployment.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wied, 120; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFScreech2005" class="citation book cs1">Screech, Matthew (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EvkGQnWZf1gC&pg=PA85"><i>Masters of the ninth art: bandes dessinées and Franco-Belgian identity</i></a>. Liverpool University Press. p. 85. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780853239383" title="Special:BookSources/9780853239383"><bdi>9780853239383</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Masters+of+the+ninth+art%3A+bandes+dessin%C3%A9es+and+Franco-Belgian+identity&rft.pages=85&rft.pub=Liverpool+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=9780853239383&rft.aulast=Screech&rft.aufirst=Matthew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DEvkGQnWZf1gC%26pg%3DPA85&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Suicide+of+Saul" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat; it is Rotterdam, <a href="/wiki/Museum_Boijmans_Van_Beuningen" title="Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen">Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen</a>, inv. no. N 146</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cat</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Suicide_of_Saul&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Cat": <i>Bruegel: The Master</i> (Catalogue of the 450th Anniversary exhibition in Vienna), Elke Oberthaler, Sabine Pénot, Manfred Sellink and Ron Spronk, with Alice Hoppe-Harnoncourt et a., 2019, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Thames & Hudson (English version). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pdfcoffee.com/bruegel-pdf-free.html">online text</a></li> <li>Wied, Alexander, <i>Bruegel</i>, 1980, Studio Vista, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Snow">Adoration of the Magi in the Snow</a></i> (1563)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Tower_of_Babel_(Bruegel)" title="The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)">The Tower of Babel</a></i> (1563)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Flight_into_Egypt_(Bruegel)" title="Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Bruegel)">Landscape with the Flight into Egypt</a></i> (1563)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Kings_(Bruegel)" title="Adoration of the Kings (Bruegel)">Adoration of the Kings</a></i> (1564)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Virgin_(Bruegel)" title="The Death of the Virgin (Bruegel)">The Death of the Virgin</a></i> (1564)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Procession_to_Calvary_(Bruegel)" title="The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel)">The Procession to Calvary</a></i> (1564)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Christ_and_the_Woman_Taken_in_Adultery_(Bruegel)" title="Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Bruegel)">Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery</a></i> (1565)</li> <li><i><a 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