Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Bruegel paints crowded panoramas of peasant life from a high vantage point — dozens of tiny figures, snowy or harvest landscapes, earthy humour and folk proverbs scattered through busy, bird's-eye scenes.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was a painter from Netherlands, associated with Northern Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →

More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein the Younger.