How could the painter Pieter Bruegel and writer Wislawa Szymborska have anything remotely in common, when the fact is that four hundred years separate their works? A painting by Pieter Bruegel connects these two artists over four hundred years of time. Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born sometime between 1525 and 1530. Originally a student of Pieter Coecke van Alost, he was later accepted into the Antwerp painters" guild in 1551. In 1563 he married Coecke"s daughter, and they later had two children. Both children would prove to have their own artistic abilities and would carry on the painting tradition....
the fate of humankind, but at least some people try to think of ways to make life a little better. The last three lines she says that just when she doesn"t feel like trying anymore, and is ready to accept life in a passive way, she is prompted to fight again for a better life becau! se she doesn"t want to just be alive, she wants to live life for all that it"s worth.

Even though Bruegel"s painting was created in 1562, it is obvious from Szymborska"s writing that his works still apply to contemporary issues and modern-day lives.