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Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows villagers dancing, drinking, and socializing outdoors near rustic buildings, with musicians playing in the foreground.
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Pieter Bruegel, the Elder

Flemish artist
Also known as: Boeren Breughel, Boeren Bruegel, Boeren Brueghel, Peasant Bruegel, Pieter Breughel de Oudere, Pieter Bruegel de Oudere, Pieter Brueghel, Pieter Brueghel de Oudere, Pieter Brueghel, the Elder(Show More)
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Pieter Bruegel, the Elder (born c. 1525, probably Breda, duchy of Brabant [now in the Netherlands]—died Sept. 5/9, 1569, Brussels [now in Belgium]) was the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, whose landscapes and vigorous, often witty scenes of peasant life are particularly renowned. Since Bruegel signed and dated many of his works, his artistic evolution can be traced from the early landscapes, in which he shows affinity with the Flemish 16th-century landscape tradition,...

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