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Breughel

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Breughel, family of painters: see Bruegel Bruegel, Brueghel, or Breughel , outstanding family of Flemish genre and landscape painters. The foremost,

Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, c.
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Brueghel, Bruegel, Breughel
1. Jan . 1568--1625, Flemish painter, noted for his detailed still lifes and landscapes
2. his father, Pieter , called the Elder. ?1525--69, Flemish painter, noted for his landscapes, his satirical paintings of peasant life, and his allegorical biblical scenes
3. his son, Pieter, called the Younger. ?1564--1637, Flemish painter, noted for his gruesome pictures of hell


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Don't fall off your chair, but there's an exhibition of Flemish art from Breughel to Rubens (pictured above) is worth the entrance charge alone, and doubtless there will other surprising treasures from a collection that never ceases to amaze.
This was a group of floral still lifes from 2008, hung in ornate frames on the wall like any in the great tradition of flower paintings from Jan Breughel on down.
Vermeer, Breughel, Velasquez, Canaletto; Durer, Holbein, Ingres as draftsmen; Matisse, Klee--these are a few of the others I admire now.
 
 
 
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