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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (BROY-gəl,[2][3][4]BROO-gəl;[5][6]Dutch:[ˈpitərˈbrøːɣəl]ⓘ; 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.
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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 pro