Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
PainterKnown for:
The Hunters in the Snow (1565); Flemish peasant painting
Education:
Apprenticed under Pieter Coecke van Aelst in Antwerp; joined Guild of St. Luke (1551)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced approximately 45 paintings across a career of less than two decades, depicting Flemish peasant life and biblical scenes with a panoramic, aerial perspective and a detail and wit that have no real predecessor in Northern European painting. The Hunters in the Snow (1565) and Children's Games (1560) remain among the most recognizable paintings in Western art. He is the patriarch of a dynasty of painters that continued for three generations.
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Painted in oil on Baltic oak panels with chalk-and-glue ground; limited palette of earth pigments, smalt, azurite, vermilion, and lead white
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Oil paint — pigment suspended in a drying oil, typically linseed — has been the dominant painting medium since the fifteenth century. It dries slowly, allowing extended blending, and produces a rich, luminous surface. Available from dozens of manufacturers at student through professional grades.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
