Frans Floris applies his characteristic Romanist Mannerist…

Frans Floris applies his characteristic Romanist Mannerist style to a Last Judgment in 1565.

The boldness and force of the Flemish painter's works reflect the monumental style of their Italian models.

Their technical execution reveals a rapid hand, bright coloring, and a mastery of anatomy not always evident in Netherlandish art of the time.

Floris owes much of his repute to the cleverness with which his works are transferred to copper by Jerome Cock, Cornelis Cort, and Theodor Galle.

Pieter Breugel the Elder executes several paintings in 1565, including The Months, a cycle of probably 6 paintings of the months or seasons, of which five remain:

* The Hunters in the Snow (Dec.-Jan.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

* The Gloomy Day (Feb.-Ma.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

* The Hay Harvest (June–July), 1565, Lobkowicz Palace at the Prague Castle Complex, Czech Republic

* The Harvesters (Aug.-Sept.), 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

* The Return of the Herd (Oct.-Nov.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Breugel’s winter landscapes of 1565 (e.g., Hunters in the Snow, are taken as corroborative evidence of the severity of winters during the Little Ice Age.

Hunters in the Snow displays the influence of his Alpine crossings on his artistic imagination, placing tall mountains in his panoramic background while depicting a typical Netherlandish setting and subject in the center and foreground.