Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525–1569)

• Was a Flemish painter from Breda.
• Pieter Bruegel specialized in genre paintings populated by peasants, often with a landscape element.

• Bruegel also painted religious scenes in a wide Flemish landscape setting.

• Over the 1560s, Bruegel moved to a style showing only a few large figures, typically in a landscape background without a distant view.
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