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Pieter Bruegel (1446 words) |
 | Pieter Bruegel (the Elder) was a Flemish artist active in Antwerp and Brussels, famous for his paintings and drawings of landscapes and scenes of robust peasant life, and founder of a dynasty of artists that remained active well into the 17th century. |
| Bruegel's art is often seen as the last phase in the development of a long tradition of Netherlandish painting beginning with Jan van Eyck in the 15th century. |
| Bruegel's pictures have been variously interpreted as referring to the beliefs of different religious thinkers, to the conflicts between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, to the political domination of the Lowlands by the Spanish, and as visual equivalents to dramatic allegories performed publicly by Flemish societies of rhetoric. |
| Famous Belgians - Peter Bruegel the Elder (705 words) |
| Bruegel was patronized, however, by Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granville, advisor to Philip II, and about 1563 he moved from Antwerp to Brussels, the seat of the Spanish government in the Netherlands. |
| Bruegel probably viewed organized religion as an obstacle between man and God; his Parable of the Blind, also known as The Blind Leading the Blind (1568; Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples) may be interpreted as illustrating this idea. |
| Three of Peter Bruegel the Elder's grandsons were painters : Peter III (1589-1634), son of Peter the Younger; and Ambrosius (1617-1675) and Jan the Younger (1601-1678), both sons of Jan I. Each imitated the work of his father. |
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