Pieter Brueghel
Noun
Meaning
Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569)
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Genre painting became a popular idiom amongst Northern painters such as Pieter Brueghel.
His son Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638) also painted many snowy landscapes, though according to Burroughs he "slavishly copied his father's designs.
John preaching, in a landscape setting, was a popular subject in Dutch art from Pieter Brueghel the Elder and his successors.
Later, the work of Pieter Brueghel the Elder would inspire artists to depict themes of everyday life.
Visual arts A genre painting (Peasant Dance, c. 1568, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder) The term "genre" is much used in the history and criticism of visual art, but in art history has meanings that overlap rather confusingly.