Olga's Gallery
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(1525/30-1569)
Biography
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, nicknamed ‘Peasant Bruegel’ was probably the most significant and exciting painter in the Northern Europe during the middle part of the sixteenth century. His nickname “Peasant Bruegel” indicates to his subjects: peasant life, proverbs and genre scenes, the New Testament topics set among common folks of contemporary Flanders. Read Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Full Biography
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Landscape with Christ Appearing to the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias. 1553. Oil on wood. Private collection. Read Note. 
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. 1555. Oil transferred from panel to canvas. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Read Note.
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Detail. 1555. Oil transferred from panel to canvas. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Big Fish Eat Little Fish. 1556. Ink on paper. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
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The Bay of Naples. 1556. Oil on wood. Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome, Italy.
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The Bay of Naples. Detail. 1556. Oil on wood. Galleria Doria Pamphili, Rome, Italy.
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The Alchemist. 1558. Ink on paper. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany.
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The Fight between Carnival and Lent. 1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
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The Fight between Carnival and Lent. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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The Fight between Carnival and Lent. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
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The Fight between Carnival and Lent. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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The Fight between Carnival and Lent. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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The Flemish Proverbs. 1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
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The Flemish Proverbs. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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The Flemish Proverbs. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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The Flemish Proverbs. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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The Flemish Proverbs. Detail. 1559. Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Children's Games. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Read Note.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Children's Games. Detail. 1560. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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