Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1520 - 1569) was a Flemish painter, born in Bruegel[?]. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
He specialised in landscapes populated by peasants, painted in a simpler style than the Italianate[?] art that prevailed at the time. Nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty.
Works
- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus c.1558
- Netherlandish Proverbs 1559
- The Triumph of Death c. 1562, Museo del Prado, Madrid
- Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) c. 1562, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
- The Tower of Babel 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
- The "Little" Tower of Babel c. 1563, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- The Procession to Calvary 1564, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
- The Adoration of the Kings 1564, The National Gallery, London
- Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap 1565, Wiltshire, Wilton House
- The Hunters in the Snow 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
- The Harvesters 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The painter and the buyer c. 1565, Albertina, Vienna
- The Blind Leading the Blind 1568
- The Peasant Wedding 1568
- The Peasant Dance 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
- The Beggars 1568 , Louvre
- The Death of the Virgin
- The Fall of the Rebel Angels
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel the Elder