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Encyclopedia > Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Bruegel

Bruegel's The Painter and The Connoisseur drawn c. 1565 is thought to be a self-portrait
Birth name Pieter Brueghel
Born c. 1525
Breda, present-day Netherlands or Bree, present-day Belgium, Duchy of Brabant
Died September 9, 1569
Brussels, Duchy of Brabant
Nationality Dutch or Flemish
Field Painting, printmaking
Movement Renaissance
Works Dulle Griet (c. 1562)
The Peasant Wedding (1568)
Influenced by Hieronymous Bosch

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525September 9, 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is nicknamed 'Peasant Bruegel' to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Bruegel" is being referred to. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as Bruegel. Image File history File links BruegelPortrait. ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ... is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... The term Flemings (Dutch: ) denotes the majority population in Flanders (the northern half of Belgium). ... For other uses , see Painting (disambiguation). ... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ... For 15th century Dutch and Flemish painting, see Early Netherlandish painting. ... Mad Meg by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562. ... The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 or 1568 painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Brueghel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. ... Hieronymus Bosch; alleged portrait (around 1560) Hieronymus Bosch, also Jeroen Bosch, ( 1450 – August, 1516) was a prolific Dutch painter of the 15th and 16th century. ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ... is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... For 15th century Dutch and Flemish painting, see Early Netherlandish painting. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ... Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring, c. ... In a detail of Brueghels Land of Cockaigne (1567) a soft-boiled egg has little feet to rush to the luxuriating peasant who catches drops of honey on his tongue, while roast pigs roam wild: in fact, hunger and harsh winters were realities for the average European in the... Genre works, also called genre scenes or genre views, are pictorial representations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes. ... Brueghel or Bruegel (Pronounced in Dutch) was the name of several Dutch/Flemish painters from the same family line: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. ...

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Life

There are records that he was born in Breda, Netherlands, but it is uncertain whether the Dutch town of Breda or the Belgian town of Bree, called Breda in Latin, is meant. He was the son of a peasant residing in the village of Breughel. He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter Mayken he later married. He spent some time in France and Italy, and then went to Antwerp, where in 1551 he was accepted as a master in the painter's guild. He traveled to Italy soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in Brussels permanently 10 years later. He died there on 9 September 1569. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Both became painters, but as they were very young children when their father died, neither received any training from him. According to Carel van Mander, it is likely that they were instructed by their grandmother Mayken Verhulst van Aelst, who was also an artist. Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. ... Bree is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. ... For other uses, see Latins and Latin (disambiguation). ... Pieter van Aelst or Pieter Coecke van Aelst (August 14, 1502 to December 6, 1556) was a Flemish painter. ... For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... A master craftsman (sometimes called only master or grandmaster) was a member of a guild. ... Jan Gossaert, , c. ... This article is about the settlement itself. ... is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 11 - First recorded lottery in England. ... Anthony van Dyck: Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564/65-1636) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elders paintings and nicknamed Hell Brueghel for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery. ... Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. ... The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Mayken Verhulst (Mechelen, 1518 - Mechelen, 1599) was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the most important female artists in the Low Countries. ...


Style

In Bruegel's later years he painted in a simpler style than the Italianate art that prevailed in his time. The most obvious influence on his art is the older Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch, particularly in Bruegel's early "demonological" paintings such as The Triumph of Death and Dulle Griet (Mad Meg). It was in nature, however, that he found his greatest inspirations as he is identified as being a master of landscapes. It was in these landscapes that Bruegel created a story, with almost several scenes seemingly combined in one painting. Such works can be seen in The Fall of the Rebel Angels and the previously mentioned The Triumph of Death. The Railway station of Albury, New South Wales, Australia was built in the Italianate Architectural Style in 1881 Italianate Architectural Style Italianate Architectural Style Italianate Architectural Style Italianate, also known as Tuscan or Lombard, describes the style of villas which developed in England, emerging from the Picturesque Movement of the... Hieronymus Bosch, (latinized, actually Jheronimus Bosch; his real name Jeroen van Aken) (c. ... Demonology is the systematic study of demons or beliefs about demons. ... The Triumph of Death The Triumph of Death is an oil on panel, approximately 117 by 162 centimeters, painted c. ... Dull Gret is the Anglicized version of Dulle Griet, a pheasant bird who is the subject of a 1562 painting by the Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ...


Themes

Bruegel specialized in landscapes populated by peasants. He is often credited as being the first Western painter to paint landscapes for their own sake, rather than as a backdrop for history painting. Occident redirects here. ... Categories: Art stubs | Painting ...


Attention to the life and manners of peasants was rare in the arts in Brueghel's time. His earthy, unsentimental but vivid depiction of the rituals of village life—including agriculture, hunts, meals, festivals, dances, and games—are unique windows on a vanished folk culture and a prime source of iconographic evidence about both physical and social aspects of 16th century life. For example, the painting Netherlandish Proverbs illustrates dozens of then-contemporary aphorisms (many of them still in use in current Dutch or Flemish), and Children's Games shows the variety of amusements enjoyed by young people. His 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. Masouleh village, Gilan Province, Iran. ... This article is about the hunting of prey by human society. ... For the coarsely ground flour, see flour. ... For other uses, see Festival (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Game (disambiguation). ... Folk can refer to a number of different things: It can be short for folk music, or, for folksong, or, for folklore; it may be a word for a specific people, tribe, or nation, especially one of the Germanic peoples; it might even be a calque on the related German... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... Look up Iconography in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Netherlandish Proverbs (also called The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder which depicts a land populated with literal renditions of Flemish proverbs of the day. ... The word aphorism (literally distinction or definition, from Greek: ) denotes an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and easily memorable form. ... For other uses, see Winter (disambiguation). ... Download high resolution version (1400x1000, 207 KB)Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling occurring after a warmer era known as the Medieval climate optimum. ...


Using abundant spirit and comic power, he created some of the early images of acute social protest in art history. Examples include paintings such as The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (a satire of the conflicts of the Reformation) and engravings like The Ass in the School and Strongboxes Battling Piggybanks. On his deathbed he reportedly ordered his wife to burn the most subversive of his drawings to protect his family from political persecution.[1] Demonstrators march in the street while protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2005. ... The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil on panel work painted by Pieter Bruegel in 1559. ... 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a good deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene. ... The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the establishment of new institutions, most importantly Lutheranism, Reformed churches, and Anabaptists. ...


Works

There are about 45 authenticated surviving paintings, one-third of which are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. A number of others are known to have been lost. There are a large number of drawings. Brueghel only etched one plate himself, The Rabbit Hunt, but designed many engravings and etchings, mostly for the Cock publishing house. Look up authenticity, authentic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Madonna in Green by Raffaello Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ... Hercules fighting the Centaurs , engraving by Sebald Beham Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... Christ Preaching, known as The Hundred Guilder print; etching c1648 by Rembrandt Etching is the process of using strong acid to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal (the original process - in modern manufacturing other chemicals may be used...

Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 proverbs
The Tower of Babel (1563) oil on board
The Tower of Babel (1563) oil on board
A detail of Children's Games (1560)
A detail of Children's Games (1560)
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565)

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1143x755, 179 KB) Description: De val van Icarus by Pieter Brueghel the Old Source: Web Gallery of Art License: File links The following pages link to this file: Pieter Brueghel the Elder Musée des Beaux-Arts User:Pietdesomere/Renaissance in... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1143x755, 179 KB) Description: De val van Icarus by Pieter Brueghel the Old Source: Web Gallery of Art License: File links The following pages link to this file: Pieter Brueghel the Elder Musée des Beaux-Arts User:Pietdesomere/Renaissance in... Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting in oil on canvas long thought to be by Pieter Bruegel, although following technical examinations in 1996, that attribution is regarded as very doubtful. ... January 7 - French troops led by Francis, Duke of Guise take Calais, the last continental possession of the Kingdom of England July 13 - Battle of Gravelines: In France, Spanish forces led by Count Lamoral of Egmont defeat the French forces of Marshal Paul des Thermes at Gravelines. ... Download high resolution version (1089x786, 308 KB)Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, Oil on oak panels. ... Download high resolution version (1089x786, 308 KB)Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559, Oil on oak panels. ... Netherlandish Proverbs (also called The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder which depicts a land populated with literal renditions of Flemish proverbs of the day. ... January 15 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. ... Look up proverb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Download high resolution version (1061x800, 196 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1061x800, 196 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Tower of Babel is an oil painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... Events February 1 - Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia February 18 - The Duke of Guise is assassinated while besieging Orléans March - Peace of Amboise. ... Detail of Children playing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... Detail of Children playing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... Events February 27 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands. ... Download high resolution version (2484x1700, 997 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2484x1700, 997 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 or 1568 painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Brueghel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. ... Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ... Download high resolution version (1145x717, 224 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1145x717, 224 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... // Events March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded. ... The Big Fish Eat the Small Ones by Peter Brueghel the Elder (1556). ... The Albertina is a famous art museum in Vienna, Austria. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (4096x2404, 938 KB) File links No pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file. ... Velázquezs 1650 Portrait of Innocent X (Pamphilj). ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x748, 210 KB) With this painting Bruegel plunges into the then old-fashioned tradition of Hieronymus Boschs world. ... The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Les Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Dutch: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België), is one of the most famous museums in Belgium. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1576x1289, 224 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): The Tower of Babel (Brueghel) ... Museum Boymans-van Beuningen is the main museum of arts in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. ... Nickname: Motto: Sterker door strijd (Stronger through Struggle) Location of Rotterdam Coordinates: , Country Province Government  - Mayor Ivo Opstelten  - Aldermen Jeannette Baljeu Hamit Karakus Orhan Kaya Lucas Bolsius Jantine Kriens Dominic Schrijer Roelf de Boer Leonard Geluk Area [1]  - Total 319 km² (123. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3200x2300, 583 KB) File links No pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file. ... Madonna in Green by Raffaello Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel. ... The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, located on the north side of Trafalgar Square. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1576x1150, 237 KB) File links No pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file. ... Shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens over more than 500 years, the Royal Collection includes paintings, drawings and watercolours, furniture, ceramics, clocks, silver, sculpture, jewellery, books, manuscripts, prints and maps, arms and armour, fans, and textiles. ... Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresien-Platz, Vienna Madonna im Grünen by Raffaello Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress by Velázquez Schloss Belvedere, Vienna by Canaletto The Kunsthistorisches Museum (en: Museum of Art History) in Vienna, is located on Ringstraße. ... Download high resolution version (1145x717, 224 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Les Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Dutch: Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België), is one of the most famous museums in Belgium. ... Marten de Vos. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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Madonna in Green by Raffaello Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. ... The Triumph of Death The Triumph of Death is an oil on panel, approximately 117 by 162 centimeters, painted c. ... Bold text The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid; the capital of Spain. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ... Dull Gret is the Anglicized version of Dulle Griet, a pheasant bird who is the subject of a 1562 painting by the Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... The Tower of Babel is an oil painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. ... The Courtauld Institute of Art is a listed organisation of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Upton House is a country house in the English county of Warwickshire, not far from the Oxfordshire town of Banbury. ... The Hunters in the Snow is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. ... The Gloomy Day is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. ... The Hay Harvest is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. ... The Harvesters is an oil on wood canvas work painted by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City. ... This article is about the state. ... The Return of the Herd is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. ... London museum | name = British Museum | image = British Museum from NE 2. ... The Albertina is a famous art museum in Vienna, Austria. ... The museums entrance The Museum of Fine Arts (Hungarian: Szépművészeti Múzeum) is a museum in Heroes Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Palace of Art. ... 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Abraham Brueghel

Anthony van Dyck: Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564/65-1636) was a Flemish painter, known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Brueghel the Elders paintings and nicknamed Hell Brueghel for his fantastic treatments of fire and grotesque imagery. ... Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) was a Flemish painter, son of Pieter Brueghel the Elder and father of Jan Brueghel the Younger. ... Ambrosius Brueghel (Antwerp, 1617—9 February 1675) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in landscapes and flower paintings. ... Paradise by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. ... David Teniers the Younger (December 15, 1610 - April 25, 1690), Flemish artist was the more celebrated son of David Teniers the Elder, almost ranking in celebrity with Rubens and Van Dyck, was born in Antwerp. ... Bouquet of flowers in a vase in bronze Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. ...

See also

This is an incomplete list of Flemish painters, with place and date of birth and death and painting style. ... Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Wife by Jan van Eyck (1434). ... For 15th century Dutch and Flemish painting, see Early Netherlandish painting. ... The Renaissance in the Netherlands coincides with a very turbulent period in the region. ...

References

  1. ^ Mayor, A. Hyatt. Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971, 426.
  2. ^ deredactie.be

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Pieter Brueghel the Elder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (744 words)
He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter Mayke he later married, and was in 1551 accepted as a master in the painters' guild of Antwerp.
He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder who both became painters, but as they were still infants when their father died; neither received any training from him.
Bruegel specialised in landscapes populated by peasants, painted in a simpler style than the Italianate art that prevailed at the time.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Paintings (739 words)
Pieter Brueghel the Younger was the elder of two sons born just a few years before their father's, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's death.
Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder (1525?-1569), 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 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.
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