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The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 genre painting by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
May 16, 2024 · Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (born c. 1525, probably Breda, duchy of Brabant [now in the Netherlands]—died Sept. 5/9, 1569, Brussels [now in Belgium]) was the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned.
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Van Mander seems to assume he came from a peasant background, in keeping with the over-emphasis on Bruegel's peasant genre scenes given by van Mander and many early art historians and critics. [12] The Blind Leading the Blind , 1568
Aug 9, 2021 · Pieter Bruegel was a Flemish Renaissance master, famous for his lively depictions of peasant scenes and busy landscapes which made him a pioneer of genre painting.
Aug 24, 2018 · Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder is best known for his busy tableaus of 16th-century Netherlandish peasants that range from the banal to the absurd.
Aug 15, 2022 · Whether or not “Peasant Bruegel”, the nickname of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), was a peasant himself or whether he simply romanticized peasant life remains unknown. What we do know is that this Renaissance artist loved to depict the common man as he was.
A number of Bruegel’s paintings focus on the lives of Flemish commoners, which earned him the nickname “peasant Bruegel,” as well as the misguided reputation for being of peasant birth.
