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Pieter Bruegel

About Pieter Bruegel

SOURCE: http://www.britannica.com/biography/Pieter-Bruegel-the-Elder

   Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, byname Peasant Bruegel, Dutch Pieter Bruegel De Oudere or Boeren Bruegel, Bruegel also spelled Brueghel or Breughel    (born c. 1525, probably Breda, duchy of Brabant [now in the Netherlands]—died Sept. 5/9, 1569, Brussels [now in Belgium]), the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned. Since Bruegel signed and dated many of his works, his artistic evolution can be traced from the early landscapes, in which he shows affinity with the Flemish 16th-century landscape tradition, to his last works, which are Italianate. He exerted a strong influence on painting in the Low Countries, and through his sons Jan and Pieter he became the ancestor of a dynasty of painters that survived into the 18th century.

 

 

 

Wedding Dance

Wedding Dance
Creator Pieter Bruegel
Title Wedding Dance
Date Original Painting 1566
Medium Print Reproduction
Measurements  22 x 19
Repository Saint Clair County Community College
Accession  July 1997
Location Storage
ID Number 11941
Rights Terms of Use

Pieter Bruegel, Wedding Dance