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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Birth name Pieter Bruegel Born c. 1525, Breda, Habsburg Netherlands Died September 9, 1569 (age 44), Brussels, Habsburg Netherlands Field Painting, printmaking Movement Dutch and Flemish Renaissance Works The Peasant Wedding Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – 9 September 1569) was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre Painting). He is sometimes referred to as "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but is also the one generally meant when the context does not make clear which "Bruegel" is being referred to. From 1559 he dropped the 'h' from his name and started signing his paintings as Bruegel. Life There are records that he was born in Breda, Netherlands, but it is uncertain whether the Dutch town of Breda or the Belgian town of Bree, called Breda in Latin, is meant. He was an apprentice of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, ...

Allegory of Happiness (1564) Angelo Bronzino, "Allegorie des Glücks" (1564) Oil on copper 40 x 30 cm Uffizien (Florenz) Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572), usually known as Il Bronzino, or Agnolo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelo_Bronzino_-_Allegorie_Des_Gl%C3%BCcks.jpg Angelo Bronzino | Paintings in the Uffizi Gallery | 1564 paintings | Fortuna | Paintings of cornucopia | Caduceus | Allegorical paintings | Humans with angels | Oil on copper | Mannerism (1520 - 1600)

Tower of Babel (1563) Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder Title English: Tower of Babel العربية: برج بابل Deutsch: Turmbau zu Babel Français : La Tour de Babel Español: Torre de Babel Italiano: Torre di Babele Русский: Вавилонская башня Polski: Budowa wieży Babel 中文: 巴別塔 Date 1563 Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Holz Italiano: Olio su Tavola Dimensions Deutsch: 114 × 155 cm Current location Deutsch: Kunsthistorisches Museum Deutsch: Wien Français : Vienne, Autriche Italiano: Vienna, Austria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brueghel-tower-of-babel.jpg

Academic art Academic art is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie des beaux-arts, which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and the art that followed these two movements in the attempt to synthesize both of their styles, and which is best reflected by the paintings of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Suzor-Coté, Thomas Couture, and Hans Makart. In this context it is often called "academism", "academicism", "L'art pompier", and "eclecticism", and sometimes linked with "historicism" and "syncretism". The art influenced by academies and universities in general is also called "academic art". In this context as new styles are embraced by academics, the new styles come to be considered academic, thus what was at one time a rebe...