Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder

//**Pieter Bruegel the Elder**// (1525-1569)
//Pieter Bruegel the Elder// was a Flemish painter. He is known for landscape and peasant scenes. He was born in 1525 and died in 1569 at 44 ye ars old. He was born in the Netherlands, and played a very crucial role in the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance. Italian Mannerism was the main style of work but Pieter differentiated from the dominant artistic style. Throughout his lifetime he progressed as a artist, and introduced new styles. His artworks influenced many later artist.

He was an apprentice for Pieter Coecke van Aelst a flemish painter and later married his daughter Mayken. Mayken and Pieter had two son's Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Bruegel the Elder who also became famous painters. Pieter Bruegel the Elder went on to study art in France, Italy and Antwerp where he was accepted as a master in the painters guild. His paintings were mainly about everyday life of a peasant. He was different from most painters at the time, and his success helped bring more significance to his paintings.

The Hunter in the Snow is a oil on wood painting that displays a scene of two hunters coming back in to town. One of the men is carrying the carcass of a fox while the other is carrying nothing. The men are painted to looked weary and tired to show the long days of works as a peasant.



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