Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30 to 1569) was a painter and printmaker of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance art, among the most significant artists of that tradition. He was known for his landscapes and peasant scenes and was a pioneer in presenting both kinds of subject as large paintings rather than minor motifs.
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Birthplaceexact birthplace disputed between towns named Breda Death PlaceBrussels, Duchy of Brabant 1 Active From Year Connections
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Northern Renaissance painter.
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Source Parable of the Sower (Bruegel) (Wikipedia)
Painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565.
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9 September 1569
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This usually happened between the ages of twenty and twenty-five, giving a range for his birth between 1525 and 1530.
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Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands, (nowadays Belgium)
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among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting
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He was a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting and later painting in general in his innovative choices of subject matter, as one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting.
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In 1551, Bruegel became a free master in the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp.
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was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker
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was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker
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Netherlandish Proverbs (Wikipedia)
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Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans
Massacre of the Innocents (Bruegel) (Wikipedia)
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Several oil-on-oak-panel versions of The Massacre of the Innocents were painted by 16th-century Netherlandish painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The work translates the Biblical account of t
Two Monkeys (Bruegel) (Wikipedia)
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Two Monkeys or Two Chained Monkeys is a 1562 painting by Dutch and Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The work is now in the Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) of the Berlin State Museums.
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (Bruegel) (Wikipedia)
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Landscape with the Flight into Egypt is a 1563 oil on wooden panel painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, showing the biblical Flight into Egypt of Mary and Joseph with the infant Jesus. It meas
The Parable of the Blind (Wikipedia)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Big Fish Eat Little Fish (Wikipedia)
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Drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Engraving by Pieter van der Heyden
Parable of the Sower (Bruegel) (Wikipedia)
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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