Breughel
Americannoun
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Pieter the Elder Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.
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his sons Jan Velvet Breughel, 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger (“Hell Breughel” ), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.
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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
This terrific account places Breughel, Vermeer and Rembrandt against the context of the upheavals of their time.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2013
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
She is thought to have been of the family of Velvet Breughel, who lived in the early part of the seventeenth century.
From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters
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