Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Pieter Bruegel The Elder

by Darren Hartley

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was astonishingly independent of the dominant artistic interests during his time, despite his taking the requisite journey to Italy for purposes of study. He deliberately revived the late Gothic style of Hieronymus Bosch as the point of departure from Italian mannerism for his own highly complex and original art.

According to Karl van Mander, a Dutch biographer, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, an Antwerp painter, served as the master to <a href='http://photosofpaintings.net/pieter-bruegel-elder-photos-17/'>Pieter Bruegel the Elder</a>. It was the daughter of Pieter Coecke that Pieter Bruegel later on married in 1563.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder went to Italy between 1552 and 1553, presumably by way of France. He met the miniaturist Giulio Clovio, on his visit to Rome. Giulio listed three paintings by Pieter in his will of 1578. However, the paintings, which apparently consisted of landscapes, did not survive the test of time.

In the series Seven Deadly Sins, Pieter Bruegel the Elder achieved a truly creative synthesis of the demonic symbolism of Hieronymus Bosch with his own personal vision of human folly and depravity. This was very unlikely of any of his Antwerp contemporaries.

In Combat of Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder showed a new sensitivity to color, specifically in the use of bright primary hues and a rhythmic organization of forms which were unique to Pieter.

The Dulle Griet of 1562 was still related to the style of Hieronymus Bosch. However it was unlike the works of Hieronymus in the sense that it was not intended as a moral sermon against the depravity of the world but rather as a recognition of evil in it. This capacity to see evil as inseparable from the human condition was carried over into the Triumph of Death, another Pieter Bruegel painting of the same year.



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Title: Pieter Bruegel The Elder
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