Breughel
Americannoun
-
Pieter the Elder Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.
-
his sons Jan Velvet Breughel, 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger (“Hell Breughel” ), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
That’s a crime akin to cutting random holes in a Bosch or Breughel painting; but what’s left is choice.
From Time • Dec. 5, 2013
Breughel is the Shakespeare of painting, in my opinion.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011
The Fight Between Temperance And Liquor, set in the indistinctive architectural centre of Walsall itself, is a satirical knees-up loosely based on Breughel.
From The Guardian • May 21, 2010
There he took to painting hyper-detailed landscapes that sometimes leaned toward Caspar David Friedrich, sometimes toward Breughel tinged with some of the weirdness of Max Klinger.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2010
On the crowded wall, forming the background against which is seen the model's charming profile, is a picture which obviously is a copy of the painting of La Fuite en Egypte by Breughel.
From Artists Past and Present Random Studies by Cary, Elisabeth Luther
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
