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Breughel
[ broi-guhl, broo-; Flemish brœ-guhl ]
noun
- Pie·ter the Elder [pee, -ter, pee, -t, uh, r], Peasant Breughel, c1525–69, Flemish genre and landscape painter.
- his sons Jan [yahn], Velvet Breughel, 1568–1625, and Pieter the Younger ( “Hell Breughel” ), 1564–1637?, Flemish painters.
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No one excelled our English master in this crowding of incident, not even Breughel or Teniers.
Another artist in whose works Breughel's inspiration is apparent is Jacob Smits (b. 1856).
Like Breughel, he succeeded in bringing the Christian story close to the people's hearts amidst Flemish contemporary surroundings.
One of the great pictures by Pieter Breughel the Elder shows a procession of blind men entering a river.
And Eggers insists the whole film is replete with suggestions of the work of Pieter Breughel, the painter.
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