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The Triumph of Death

1562

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Art ID:

Brueghel the Elder

Pieter

185000000

$

117,0 x 162,0 cm

Oil on panel

Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder * c. 1525 probably in Breda; † 9 September 1569 in Brussels), called de Drol "the Droll" or "Peasant Brueghel", was a painter of the Dutch Renaissance. He is popularly known for his depictions of peasant life in the Duchy of Brabant (Netherlands and Flanders) in the 16th century.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder was known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings.
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. He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. After his training and travels to Italy, he returned in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day. Only towards the end of the decade did he switch to make painting his main medium, and all his famous paintings come from the following period of little more than a decade before his early death, when he was probably in his early forties, and at the height of his powers.
As well as looking forwards, his art reinvigorates medieval subjects such as marginal drolleries of ordinary life in illuminated manuscripts, and the calendar scenes of agricultural labours set in landscape backgrounds, and puts these on a much larger scale than before, and in the expensive medium of oil painting. He does the same with the fantastic and anarchic world developed in Renaissance prints and book illustrations.
He is sometimes referred to as "Peasant Brueghel", to distinguish him from the many later painters in his family, including his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638). From 1559, he dropped the 'h' from his name and signed his paintings as Brueghel; his relatives continued to use "Brueghel" or "Breughel".

The Triumph of Death

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The Peasant Wedding

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Art ID:

1568

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114,0 x 164,0 cm

Oil on panel

205000000

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The Hunters in the Snow

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The Hunters in the Snow

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Art ID:

1565

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117,0 x 162,0 cm

Oil on panel

185000000

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The Children‘s Games

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The Children‘s Games

39

Art ID:

1560

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118,0 x 161,0 cm

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The Tower of Babel

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Art ID:

1563

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114,0 x 155,0 cm

Oil on panel

225000000

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