Pieter Brueghel the Elder

by: Henry HKM Mangold

Quick Bio

• Great Flemish Painter in sixteenth century

• Became a Master of the Painters Guild of Antwerp

• Traveled around Europe learning different style of painting

Landscapes

Netherlandish Proverbs

The Peasant Paintings

• First to paint the life and manner of peasants

• paintings emphasize peasant stolidity