Pieter Van Aelst (other)
Peter van Aelst, Peeter van Aelst or Pieter van Aelst is the name of a number of artists including: *Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a Flemish painter of the 16th century *Peeter van Aelst, a 17th-century Dutch still life painter referred to by Cornelis de Bie in his Het Gulden Cabinet * Pieter van Aelst, a 17th-century Flemish genre painter active in Antwerp from 1644 to 1654 *Pieter van Aelst III Pieter van Aelst or Pieter van Aelst III (c. 1495 – c. 1560) was a Flemish tapestry Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden i ...

Pieter Coecke Van Aelst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst or Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder ( Aalst, 14 August 1502 – Brussels, 6 December 1550) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect, author and designer of woodcuts, goldsmith's work, stained glass and tapestries.Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I)
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His principal subjects were Christian religious themes. He worked in Antwerp and Brussels and was appointed to

Cornelis De Bie
Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish '' rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish and Dutch painters in his ''Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst'' (the Golden Cabinet of the Honourable Free Art of Painting), first printed in 1662. Biography He was the son of the painter Adriaan de Bie and member of the Chamber of Rhetoric in Lier known as ''den Groeyenden Boom''. After his study at the propedeuse faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven, he returned to Lier where he became a notary and bookseller. He was married twice: the first time to Elisabeth Smits who died in 1662 and the second time to Isabella Caelheyt who died in 1706. He had eight children, four from each wife. He died after 1712 and before 1715. ''Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst'' (1662) When the publisher Jan Meyssen aske ...
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Het Gulden Cabinet
''Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const'' or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits of 16th- and 17th-century artists, predominantly from the Habsburg Netherlands. The work is a very important source of information on the artists it describes. It formed the principal source of information for later art historians such as Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Weyerman. It was published in 1662, although the work also mentions 1661 as date of publication. Background ''Het Gulden Cabinet'' stands in a long tradition of artist biographies. This tradition goes back to Pliny the Elder, Pliny and was revived during the Renaissance. In 1550, the Italian Giorgio Vasari published his ''Vite'' on the lives of famous artists. Karel van Mande ...
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Pieter Van Aelst (Antwerp)
Peter van Aelst, Peeter van Aelst or Pieter van Aelst was a Flemish genre painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp from 1644 to 1654.Pieter van Aelst
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Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life and work

There are no records about the life and training of this artist active in Antwerp in the mid-17th century. He is currently known for only one work attributed to him. It represents the '' in Antwerp''.
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Genre Art
Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, genre scenes, or genre views) may be realistic, imagined, or romanticized by the artist. Some variations of the term ''genre art'' specify the medium or type of visual work, as in ''genre painting'', ''genre prints'', ''genre photographs'', and so on. The following concentrates on painting, but genre motifs were also extremely popular in many forms of the decorative arts, especially from the Rococo of the early 18th century onwards. Single figures or small groups decorated a huge variety of objects such as porcelain, furniture, wallpaper, and textiles. Genre painting ''Genre painting'', also called ''genre scene'' or ''petit genre'', depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One comm ...
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