Research topic: Bruegel

Bruegel   Brueghel, or Breughel , outstanding family of Flemish genre and landscape painters. The foremost, Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, c.1525-1569, called Peasant Bruegel, studied in Antwerp with his future father-in-law, Pieter Coeck van Aelst, but was influenced primarily by Bosch . In 1551 he became a member of the Antwerp Guild. Bruegel visited Italy in the early 1550s. He remained close, however, to the Flemish tradition and employed his native powers of minute observation in depicting the whole living world of field and forest and of sturdy peasants at work and play. He... Read more