After his training and travels to Italy, he returned in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day.

He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. He was a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting and later painting in general in his innovative choices of subject matter, as one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting) he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( / ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl/, also US: / ˈ b r uː ɡ əl/ Dutch: ( listen) c. The Hunters in the Snow, The Peasant Wedding, The Tower of Babel

Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands

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