Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. He was nicknamed Peasant Bruegel to distinguish him from other members of the Bruegel dynasty. He was the greatest member of a large and important southern Netherlandish family of artists active for four generation in the 16th and 17th centuries.
While Karel van Mander, a Dutch biographer, claims that Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born in a town of the same name near Breda, most recent authorities follow the Italian writer Guicciardini in designating Breda itself as the birthplace of Pieter. It is inferred that Pieter was born between 1525 and 1530 on the basis of the fact that Pieter entered the guild of Antwerp painters in 1551.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder went to Italy between 1552 and 1553, presumably by way of France. He met the miniaturist Giulio Clovio, on his visit to Rome. Giulio listed three paintings by Pieter in his will of 1578. However, the paintings, which apparently consisted of landscapes, did not survive the test of time.
In the series Seven Deadly Sins, Pieter Bruegel the Elder achieved a truly creative synthesis of the demonic symbolism of Hieronymus Bosch with his own personal vision of human folly and depravity. This was very unlikely of any of his Antwerp contemporaries.
The 1959 Combat of Carnival and Lent, one of the earliest signed and dated painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the influence of Hieronymus Bosch was still strongly felt. Derivatives from the earlier Dutch master included the high-horizoned landscape, the decorative surface patterning and many of the iconographic details.
The two most phantasmagoric works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Dulle Griet and the Triumph of Death were related in conception to his encyclopaedic paintings. Both paintings were presumed to have been executed in 1562. The Tower of Babel of 1563 was the last of the great figurative anthologies by Pieter.
While Karel van Mander, a Dutch biographer, claims that Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born in a town of the same name near Breda, most recent authorities follow the Italian writer Guicciardini in designating Breda itself as the birthplace of Pieter. It is inferred that Pieter was born between 1525 and 1530 on the basis of the fact that Pieter entered the guild of Antwerp painters in 1551.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder went to Italy between 1552 and 1553, presumably by way of France. He met the miniaturist Giulio Clovio, on his visit to Rome. Giulio listed three paintings by Pieter in his will of 1578. However, the paintings, which apparently consisted of landscapes, did not survive the test of time.
In the series Seven Deadly Sins, Pieter Bruegel the Elder achieved a truly creative synthesis of the demonic symbolism of Hieronymus Bosch with his own personal vision of human folly and depravity. This was very unlikely of any of his Antwerp contemporaries.
The 1959 Combat of Carnival and Lent, one of the earliest signed and dated painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the influence of Hieronymus Bosch was still strongly felt. Derivatives from the earlier Dutch master included the high-horizoned landscape, the decorative surface patterning and many of the iconographic details.
The two most phantasmagoric works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the Dulle Griet and the Triumph of Death were related in conception to his encyclopaedic paintings. Both paintings were presumed to have been executed in 1562. The Tower of Babel of 1563 was the last of the great figurative anthologies by Pieter.
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