Lately I have discovered my new past time (besides art) and it is: beekeeping! Surprising, yes, I know. For some reason I have taken an immense interest in bees. They are fascinating little critters.
So I was flipping through a book on Pieter Bruegel the Elder and found an interesting drawing by him of ancient beekeeping during the mid 1500s. The drawing shows some guys in big thick robes carrying baskets. I have no idea what sort of masks they are wearing. It looks very bizarre! I imagine it's some sort of net. Some guy is also shimmying up the tree (ready to catch a swarm?) I'm not familiar with the process or equipment from antiquity, but I'm sure it's basically the same. All you really need is a container, and the bees do the rest!
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Beekeepers
pen and brown ink on paper
8 x 12 1/8 in
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
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Wondering where you got that The Beekeepers," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder image. I am looking to use it on a website (commercial, but not selling the image) and am wondering where I can go to get this ....
I stumbled upon this blog post while looking for a nice reproduction of the beekeeper drawing by Bruegel. Those masks they are wearing look to me like they are made of basketry-type work, perhaps a fairly fine lattice of cane or something similar. One wonders how effective they were at keeping out the bees! Then again, European bees are not all that aggressive. As for the bloke in the tree, the drawing's full title is "The beekeepers and the bird nester", so perhaps he is doing something unrelated to beekeeping.
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To confirm another poster's suspicions... yes, they used a basket for a mask. Enough to see through, but not enough for the bees to get through. It can be as loose as #8 hardware cloth (1/8th inch gaps) and still repel honey bees.
How do I know this? Dr. Ambrose, entomology professor emeritus at NCSU, has a full replica of that outfit. Complete with basketry-mask.
Oh, and welcome to the world of beekeeping! Challenging, but very rewarding.
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Cahill offers a commentary on the scene. He says the birdnester is stealing eggs and the intent is for the viewer to contemplate how we look at the birdnester's theft of the eggs vs the beekeeper's theft of the honey. Something about one being sanctioned and acceptable and the other frowned upon.
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