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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Brueghel de Oude
Born: c.1525; Breda, Netherlands
Died: 09 September 1569; Brussels, Belgium
Field: painting, printmaking
Nationality: Flemish
Art Movement: Northern Renaissance
School or Group: Flemish School, Antwerp School
Genre: genre painting
Pieter Brueghel the Elder was an innovative Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, known for his sweeping landscapes and peasant scenes. He was apprenticed early in his life to painter Pieter Croecke van Aelst, and in 1551 around the age of 26 he as accepted into a painter’s guild in Antwerp as a master painter.
His nickname was “Peasant Brueghel,” as he would often don peasant’s clothing and attend social gatherings and weddings, in order to mingle and interact with the locals, and gain insight and inspiration for his paintings. He also fathered two other prominent Flemish painters, Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, although it is thought that they were not taught by their father, as he died when they were young children.
As a pioneer in Netherlandish genre painting, he portrayed social aspects of 16th century life, many of which were paintings of peasants, with a large landscape element. Many of his works show the influence of Heironymous Bosch, the Dutch master painter. He also created some of the earliest form of social commentary in his paintings, and reportedly asked while laying on his deathbed to have the most subversive of the paintings burned, in order for his family to avoid political persecution.
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The Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559
The Gloomy Day, 1559
The Triumph of Death, c.1562
Hunters in the Snow, 1565
The Painter and the Art Lover, 1565
Parable of the Blind, 1568
The Magpie on the Gallows, 1568
Artworks by Style
Northern Renaissance
Country Concerns, 1552
Ice Skating before the Gate of Saint George, Antwerp, 1553
Landscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, 1553
Alpine Landscape, 1555-1556
Big fishes eat small fishes, 1556
Crafty Bird Catcher, 1555-1556
Pride, 1555-1556
Soldiers at Rest, 1555-1556
The Adoration of the Kings, c.1556
The Ass in the School, 1556
View of Tivoli, 1555-1556
The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow, 1557
Artworks by Series
Seasons of the year
Lust, 1558
The Gloomy Day, 1559
The Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Envy
Greed
Laziness
Artworks by Genre
religious painting
Landscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, 1553
The Adoration of the Kings, c.1556
Lust, 1558
The Triumph of Death, c.1562
The "Little" Tower of Babel, 1563
The Death of the Virgin, c.1564
The Adoration of the Kings, 1564
Christ carrying the Cross, 1564
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery, 1565
The Sermon of St. John the Baptist, 1566
The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-1566
Conversion of St. Paul, 1567
mythological painting
Armed Three Master with Daedalus and Icarus in the Sky, 1561-1562
Land of Cockaigne, 1567
allegorical painting
Pride, 1555-1556
The Ass in the School, 1556
Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559
The Fat Kitchen, 1563
Parable of the Blind, 1568
Charity
Courage
Faith
Hope
Justice
Laziness
Charity
genre painting
Ice Skating before the Gate of Saint George, Antwerp, 1553
Soldiers at Rest, 1555-1556
Crafty Bird Catcher, 1555-1556
The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow, 1557
Three soldiers, 1558
The Fair on St. George's Day, c.1559
The Fair at Hoboken, 1559
The Hare Hunt, 1560
Children's Games, 1560
Two Chained Monkeys, 1562
Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), 1564
James the late emperor of the Devil is stopped the illusions of a magician, 1565
portrait
Twelve Proverbs, c.1558-c.1560
Portrait of an Old Woman, 1563
Religionist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
self-portrait
The Painter and the Art Lover, 1565
cityscape
Walls Towers and Gates of Amsterdam
panorama
The Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
landscape
Country Concerns, 1552
Alpine Landscape, 1555-1556
View of Tivoli, 1555-1556
The Parable of the Sower, 1557
The Gloomy Day, 1559
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563
Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap, 1565
The Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Market for the country
Landscape of the Alps
The cart, the Belgic
marina
Naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, 1558-1562
Man of War between two Galleys, 1565
Seascape with a View of Antwerp
sketch and study
Big fishes eat small fishes, 1556
Artworks by Technique
engraving
Country Concerns, 1552
Ice Skating before the Gate of Saint George, Antwerp, 1553
View of Tivoli, 1555-1556
The Ass in the School, 1556
Alpine Landscape, 1555-1556
Lust, 1558
The Fair on St. George's Day, c.1559
Armed Three Master with Daedalus and Icarus in the Sky, 1561-1562
The Painter and the Art Lover, 1565
Man of War between two Galleys, 1565
James the late emperor of the Devil is stopped the illusions of a magician, 1565
Wooded Region, 1565-1566
etching
Country Concerns, 1552
Lust, 1558
The Fair on St. George's Day, c.1559
oil
Landscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, 1553
The Parable of the Sower, 1557
The Gloomy Day, 1559
The Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559
Children's Games, 1560
Twelve Proverbs, c.1558-c.1560
Naval battle in the Gulf of Naples, 1558-1562
Two Chained Monkeys, 1562
The Triumph of Death, c.1562
The "Little" Tower of Babel, 1563
Portrait of an Old Woman, 1563
pastel
The Resurrection of Christ
tempera
The Adoration of the Kings, c.1556
The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow, 1557
Misanthrope, 1568
Parable of the Blind, 1568
ink
Big fishes eat small fishes, 1556
Crafty Bird Catcher, 1555-1556
Pride, 1555-1556
Soldiers at Rest, 1555-1556
The Fair at Hoboken, 1559
The Hare Hunt, 1560
The Fat Kitchen, 1563
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, 1568
Summer, 1568
Landscape of the Alps
The Alchemist
Seascape with a View of Antwerp
