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Who was the Amazing Pieter Bruegel the Elder
He was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
Art is an effort to create, besides the real world, a more human world. — André Maurois.
Have a happy snow season!
This is a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Hunters in the Snow, 1565, oil on wood.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Born in 1525 in Breda, a town in the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Netherlands), Bruegel was an innovative artist who was ahead of his time in many ways.
The Census at Bethlehem (1566), oil on wood panel, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
He was a Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes, peasant scenes, drawings, and paintings.
Bruegel was a master of composition and color, and his paintings are characterized by their vivid, detailed, and expressive style.
The Procession to Calvary, 1564
Bruegel’s second largest painting at 124 cm × 170 cm (49 in × 67 in).
