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Brueghel or Bruegel () was the name of several Dutch/Flemish painters from the Brueghel family: * Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), the most famous member of the family and the only one to sign his paintings as "Bruegel" without the ''H'' * Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638) * Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625) * Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678) * Ambrosius Brueghel (1617–1675) * Jan Pieter Brueghel (1628–1664) * Abraham Brueghel (1631–1690) * Jan Baptist Brueghel (1647–1719) Bruegel may also refer to: * 9664 Brueghel, outer main-belt asteroid * Bruegel (crater), on Mercury * Breugel, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Son en Breugel * Bruegel (think tank), European economic think tank with offices in Brussels ;Others * Brueghel's syndrome Meige's syndrome is a type of dystonia. It is also known as Brueghel's syndrome and oral facial dystonia. It is actually a combination of two forms of dystonia, blepharospasm and oromandibular dys ...
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Brueghel Family
The Brueghel family (, ; ), also spelled Bruegel or Breughel, is an extended family of Dutch and Flemish painters which played a major role in the development of the art in Brabant and Flanders throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Due to the organisation in guilds and training being done with established painters and not in schools or academies, painters often passed on the knowledge from father to son (or, much more rarely, daughter), and there are many examples of Flemish painting families spanning two or more generations, e.g. the Francken family, which had at least ten painters spanning four generations. The Brueghel family produced the largest number of major painters of all Flemish families. Pieter Bruegel the Elder used that spelling, but all later members of the family used ''Brueghel''. Family tree The image above shows the main branch of the family. The complete list of all painters related to this family is longer though. In the below tree onl ...
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Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. He was a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting and later painting in general in his innovative choices of subject matter, as one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting. He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. After his training and travels to Italy, he returned in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day. Only towards the end of the decade did he switch to make painting his main medium, and all his famous paintings come from the following perio ...
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