Pieter Bruegel was a lowbrow in art. He kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman’s taste. Surviving paintings are shown in Vienna at the moment.

PIETER BRUEGEL was a lowbrow in art. In an age when the Italian Renaissance was sweeping all before it, Bruegel kept his Dutch feet firmly on lowland ground, stuck close to everyman’s taste. His zestful love of practical jokes, wise saws, old proverbs and the daily life in field and…