Breughel

or Breu·gel, Brue·ghel, Brue·gel

[ broi-guhl, broo-; Flemish brœ-guhl ]

noun

1. Pie·ter the Elder [pee, -ter, pee, -t, uh, r], Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.
2. his sons Jan [yahn], Velvet Breughel, 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger ( “Hell Breughel” ), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.

Breughel

/ ˈbrɔɪɡəl /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Brueghel

Example Sentences

“Rubens comes in and does some figures, and then Jan Breughel comes in and does the horses, the dog and the lion, because he’s ‘Mister Animal’,” Honig says.

From Nature

Listen to how Furtwängler handles the flood of themes near the end, like a party scene out of Breughel, every detail immaculate within the chaos.

From New York Times

James Ensor, the late-19th-century Belgian painter who helped shape Modernism, was an interpreter of a vast array of sources, from traditional masters like Bosch and Breughel to Courbet and Manet.

From New York Times

This terrific account places Breughel, Vermeer and Rembrandt against the context of the upheavals of their time.

From The Guardian

He's describing the Breughel painting, `Landscape With the Fall of Icarus.'

From Seattle Times