Jan Brueghel was the son of the eminentFlemish Renaissancepainter Pieter Brueghel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator withPeter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. He was born in Brussels as the son of ...
From Hubert and Jan van Eyck through Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painters were masters of the oil medium and used itprimarily to portray a robust and realistically detailed vision of the world around them. Is Flemish same as Dutch? The Dutch language is a West...
Bosch and the artist family Bruegel (apart from Pieter Bruegel the Elder, there were his sons Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) (nicknamed Hell Bruegel) and Jan the Older as well as several grandsons) were based in the area of Netherlandish painting, the main works of which lie in the ...
Born in Antwerp in 1581, Frans Francken was a Flemish painter who achieved significant success during his lifetime. The son of the renowned artist Frans Francken the Elder, he began his training in his father's workshop before becoming a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. Francken...
Outstanding still-life painters included Jan Bruegel and Frans Snyders; genre painters included David Teniers and Adriaen Brouwer. The principal exponent of classicism, the painter Abraham Janssens, brought elements of Caravaggesque painting to the Flemish school (see Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da)...
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder was the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned. Since Bruegel signed and dated many of his works, his artistic evolution can be t
Pieter Bruegel II, the Younger was a Flemish painter of rustic and religious scenes and of visions of hell or Hades. The eldest son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the young Pieter studied first under his grandmother, the miniaturist Maria Verhulst, and the
Pieter Bruegel the Elder:Peasant DancePeasant Dance, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The turbulent 16th century inFlanderswas not hospitable to art and produced only one great master,Pieter Bruegel. It is in Bruegel’s powerful portraya...
From Hubert and Jan van Eyck through Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painters were masters of the oil medium and used it primarily to portray a robust and realistically detailed vision of the world around them. Their paintings reflect clearly the changes in fortune ...
Frans Snyders was a Baroque artist who was the most-noted 17th-century painter of animals. His subjects included still lifes of markets and pantries (featuring both live animals and dead game), animals in combat, and hunting scenes. A highly skilled pain