With Flying Pen, When Mortals Sleep

It was a sweltering August day. I made my way across the promenade, and through the bustling crowd, to a small line forming outside the Timkin Art Museum. Inside, I stumbled on Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Parable of the Sower , painted in 1557, nearly five centuries ago. Photo: The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei When Bruegel took his brush to this canvas, the New World had…