| Description : Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca.1525/1530‐1569) was a Dutch
Renaissance painter known for his depictions of rural life in the 16th century Duchy of Brabant. One of his great
models was Hieronymus Bosch. Bruegel's idiosyncratic style can only be inadequately described by the term Mannerism. He is
depicted on the coin after an engraving made by Edme de Boulonois in 1582, in front of an easel with the 1563
version of his painting Tower of Babel, which is in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. Theologians see
the tower‐building project as an attempt by humanity to equal God. Under the inscription "P. BRUEGEL" are his
year of death "1569†" and the year of issue "2019", on the left the coat of arms of the municipality of Herzele the
logo of the mint master Ingrid Van Herzele, the country abbreviation "BE" (Belgium) and the staff of Hermes the mint
mark of the Royal Dutch mint Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt in Utrecht, on the right the initials "LL" of the coin
designer Luc Luycx. |