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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

[Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1525-1569]

• Also known as:  Pieter Brueghel I
• Relationships: Father of Jan 'Velvet' Bruegel and Pieter Bruegel II.
Grandfather of Jan Bruegel II.
Son-in-Law of Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
Bruegel's students included Lucas van Valckenborch.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
The Hare Hunters, etching, 1566

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Wedding Dance, 1566

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
10 paintings online

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Alpine landscape, pen and ink drawing, ca.1553

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Beggars (The Cripples), 1568

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
The Harvesters, 1565 (Zoom)

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
A variety of artworks, with biographical info

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
9 works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder at the National Gallery, London, UK
The Adoration of the Kings

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Massacre of the Innocents, ca.1565-67

Art Fund for UK Museums
The Calumny of Apelles, 1565
The Adoration of the Kings, 1564

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
23 works by or related to the artist

Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Frick Collection, New York City
The Three Soldiers, 1568

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Naval Battle in the Port of Naples

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Etchings by or after (mainly after) Pieter Bruegel

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
Fortitudo (Fortitude)

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam   NEW!
The Tower of Babel, ca.1563

Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Belgium
Mad Meg (Dulle Griet)

Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, 1567

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Pieter Bruegel online

Prado Museum, Madrid (new website, can be quite slow)
The Triumph of Death, ca.1562

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
The Census at Bethlehem

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Prudence, drawing

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Several works by Pieter Bruegel I

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Prudence, 1559, engraving after Pieter Bruegel's painting

State Museums of Berlin   NEW!

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Parable of the Sower

Université de Liège Collections (in French)  

 
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Art Renewal Center

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Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Triumph of Death, ca.1562

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Tower of Babel

Artonline

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

CGFA  

Insecula

Rasiel's Wallpapers
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Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Aiwaz Panopticon   NEW!

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)  

Artyzm

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion

Olga's Gallery

The Halter Collection
4 paintings online

 
Other Web Sites:
Christie's
The Drunkard Pushed into the Pigsty

Columbia University Visual Media Center
Explore Bruegel's The Netherlandish Proverbs

FBI Art Theft Program
The Temptation of St. Anthony

Rocbo Culture (in French)  
Geometric analysis of Brueghel's The Blind Leading the Blind (click "retour" to see more works analyzed)

The National Ossolinski Institute
Landscape with a Town in a Valley and St. Jerome, 1560

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Dulle Griet, ca.1564

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Copiously Lurid Bruegel Demands Great Patience

  
 
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Frequent misspellings: Pieter Breughel  Pieter Breugel  Pieter Breguel  Pieter Breghuel  Pieter Brueghuel  Pieter Brueguel

 
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