High Renaissance in Northern Europe - Painting and Printmaking - Pieter Bruegel the Elder

5 important questions on High Renaissance in Northern Europe - Painting and Printmaking - Pieter Bruegel the Elder

What form of painting is known as genre painting?
Which Flemmish Renaissance painter is famous for this?

  • Paintings that depict daily life of ordinary people.
  • Pieter Bruegel is a wel known genre painter.

Who was Pieter Bruegel the Elder and when did he live.

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569) is a Flemmish painter who is most famous for portraying the peasantry and countryside.

Bruegel earned considerable income by imitating another painter who lived before him.
Which painter do we mean?

Hieronymus Bosch
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What are the two most famous works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder?

  • 'The Harvesters' (1565).
  • 'Peasant Wedding' (ca. 1566-67).

Which trait that was new for its time is characteristic of Pieter Bruegel the Elder?

Bruegel gave landscape prominence; nature no longer served merely as the setting for a portrait or religious event. He integrated his depicted figures into the landscape setting, rather than placing them in the front of a landscape background.

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