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Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl / BROY-gəl, also US: / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl / BROO-gəl; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ⓘ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and ...
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (born c. 1525, probably Breda, duchy of Brabant [now in the Netherlands]—died Sept. 5/9, 1569, Brussels [now in Belgium]) was the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned.
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Learn about the life and works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. Explore his famous paintings, series, styles, periods, and influences on Wikiart.org.
- Flemish
- Breda, Netherlands
Learn about the life and work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish artist and engraver of the Northern Renaissance. Explore his distinctive style of narrative composition, his focus on rural life and social themes, and his influence on later art movements.
- Flemish
- Near Breda, Netherlands
Learn about the life and art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a leading painter and printmaker of the sixteenth-century Netherlands. Explore his inventive and humanizing depictions of moralizing, religious, and peasant scenes, as well as his landscapes and proverbs.
Biography. Although the primary source of knowledge about the life of Pieter Bruegel the Elder is Carel van Mander's Het Schilder-Boek of 1604, his account is sometimes untrustworthy and anecdotal. Relatively few facts have been added to Van Mander's biography.
The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year.
