Landscape with the Fall of Icarus mk68
Oil on wood,transferred to canvas
29"x44"
Brussels,Royal Museums of Fine Arts
1567-1568
new4/BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder-856868.jpgPainting ID:: 30513
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Date 16th century
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 133 x 206 mm
cyf new24/BOL, Hans-583777.jpgPainting ID:: 74317
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Date ca. 1555(1555)
Medium Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
cjr new25/Pieter Bruegel the Elder-883463.jpgPainting ID:: 84860
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Date c. 1555(1555)
Medium Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
cjr new25/Pieter Bruegel the Elder-778339.jpgPainting ID:: 84861
(Dutch pronunciation:c. 1525 - 9 September 1569) was a Flemish 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.
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, whose daughter Mayken he later married. He spent some time in France and Italy, and then went to Antwerp, where in 1551 he was accepted as a master in the painter's guild. He traveled to Italy soon after, and then returned to Antwerp before settling in Brussels permanently 10 years later. He received the nickname 'Peasant Bruegel' or 'Bruegel the Peasant' for his alleged practice of dressing up like a peasant in order to mingle at weddings and other celebrations, thereby gaining inspiration and authentic details for his genre paintings. He died in Brussels on 9 September 1569 and was buried in the Kapellekerk. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. Both became painters, but as they were very young children when their father died, it is believed neither received any training from him.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1555(1555)
Medium Oil on canvas,
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