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Definition of Pieter Breughel
1. Noun. Flemish painter of landscapes (1525-1569).
Generic synonyms: Old Master
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieter Breughel
Literary usage of Pieter Breughel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This was Pieter Breughel, also called, from the character and subject of most of
his representations, the "Droll* or the •Peasants' Breughel. ..."
2. Art in Flanders by Max Rooses (1914)
"Pieter Breughel had a son, Pieter Breughel the Younger (1564—1639), who is also
known as "Hell Breughel", because he painted several pictures in which the ..."
3. Painters and Their Works: A Dictionary of Great Artists who are Not Now by Ralph N. James (1896)
"He was the son of old Pieter Breughel, and, except in colouring, an inferior
painter. He was admitted into the Guild of S. Luke at Brussels, in 1585. ..."
4. Catalogue of the Collection of Engravings Bequeathed to Harvard College by by Francis Calley Gray, Louis Thies (1869)
"St. Peter and St. John healing the Cripple. . . . L. Sua vi us sc. Pieter Breughel [or
BRUEGHEL] SEN. pinx. Landscape with grotesque devilry : " Patientia ..."
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