Breughel
or Breu·gel, Brue·ghel, Brue·gel
[broi-guh l, broo-; Flemish brœ-guh l]
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noun
Pie·ter the Elder [pee-ter; Flemish pee-tuh r] /ˈpi tər; Flemish ˈpi tər/, Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.
his sonsJan [yahn] /yɑn/, Velvet Breughel, 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger (“Hell Breughel”), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.
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Historical Examples of breughel
It is hardly a masterpiece, this Breughel, and is dingy in colour.
EgoistsJames Huneker
They have all the oddity, all the whim, and all the horror of the pencil of Breughel.
Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2)Dawson Turner
The head of a child by Parmigiano; a large picture by Breughel.
Recollections of the late William BeckfordHenry Venn Lansdown
No one excelled our English master in this crowding of incident, not even Breughel or Teniers.
Adventures and EnthusiasmsE. V. Lucas
Breughel set into motion the mental machinery of the Temptation that never stopped whirring until 1874.
EgoistsJames Huneker
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