The Painter and The Connoisseur, c. 1565, possibly Bruegel's self-portrait[1]
Born
Pieter Bruegel
c. 1525–1530
Breda (in modern-day Netherlands)
Died
(1569-09-09)9 September 1569 (aged 39 to 44)
Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium)
Known for
Painting, printmaking
Notable work
The Hunters in the Snow, The Peasant Wedding, The Tower of Babel, The Triumph of Death
Movement
Dutch and Flemish Renaissance
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (/ˈbrɔɪɡəl/BROY-gəl,[2][3][4]also US: /ˈbruːɡəl/BROO-gəl;[5][6]Dutch:[ˈpitərˈbrøːɣəl]ⓘ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as 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. At the end of the 1550s, he switched 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 in 1569, when he was probably in his early forties.
In the 20th and 21st centuries, Bruegel's works have inspired artists in both the literary arts and in cinema. His painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, now thought only to survive in copies, is the subject of the final lines of the 1938 poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden. Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky refers to Bruegel's paintings in his films several times, notably in Solaris (1972) and The Mirror (1975). Director Lars von Trier also uses Bruegel's paintings in his film Melancholia (2011). In 2011, the film production titled The Mill and the Cross was released featuring Bruegel's The Procession to Calvary (Bruegel).
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