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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1525 - 1569

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Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( BROY-gəl, US also BROO-gəl; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the 32nd most popular painter (down from 26th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 8th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Dutch Painter.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is most famous for his paintings of peasant life in the Netherlands.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 32 out of 2,023. Before him are El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, and Hieronymus Bosch. After him are Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, and Masaccio.

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Among people born in 1525, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 1. After him are Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Hans Staden, Zhang Juzheng, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Germain Pilon, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Juraj Drašković, and Tadeáš Hájek. Among people deceased in 1569, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 1. After him are Louis, Prince of Condé, John of Ávila, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Maria Temryukovna, Gerolama Orsini, Aben Humeya, Mikołaj Rej, Catherine Carey, António Ferreira, and Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 11 out of 1,646. Before him are William III of England (1650), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), Johan Cruyff (1947), Pope Adrian VI (1459), and Hieronymus Bosch (1450). After him are Mata Hari (1876), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), and Daniel Bernoulli (1700).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 6. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), and Hieronymus Bosch (1450). After him are Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Jan Steen (1626), Theo van Gogh (1857), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Han van Meegeren (1889), and Dieric Bouts (1415).

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