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
"You're straight out of a Breughel yourself, you know that, don't you," I say to him.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011
Breughel is the Shakespeare of painting, in my opinion.
From The Guardian • Jan. 5, 2011
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
WhilePg 229 Rubens and Van Dyck represent mostly the aristocratic and clerical side of the Flemish art of the period, Jordaens appears as the direct descendant of J�r�me Bosch and Peter Breughel.
From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Cammaerts, Emile
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