Pieter Bruegel the Elder was astonishingly independent of the dominant artistic interests during his time, despite his taking the requisite journey to Italy for purposes of study. He deliberately revived the late Gothic style of Hieronymus Bosch as the point of departure from Italian mannerism for his own highly complex and original art.
While Karel van Mander, a Dutch biographer, claims that Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born in a town of the same name near Breda, most recent authorities follow the Italian writer Guicciardini in designating Breda itself as the birthplace of Pieter. It is inferred that Pieter was born between 1525 and 1530 on the basis of the fact that Pieter entered the guild of Antwerp painters in 1551.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder entered the house of Hieronymus Cock as an engraving designer in 1556. Big Fish Eat Little Fish, a pen drawing of Pieter that year was published as an engraving by Hieronymus. Hieronymus substituted the name of Bosch for Bruegel to exploit the popularity of the works of Bosch in Antwerp at the time.
There is evidence to suggest that Pieter Bruegel the Elder was attempting to substitute a new and moral eschatology for the traditional view of the Christian cosmos of Bosch in his series of engravings, Seven Deadly Sins. This was despite of efforts to dismiss the engravings as fascinating drolleries.
The 1959 Combat of Carnival and Lent, one of the earliest signed and dated painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the influence of Hieronymus Bosch was still strongly felt. Derivatives from the earlier Dutch master included the high-horizoned landscape, the decorative surface patterning and many of the iconographic details.
The Dulle Griet of 1562 was still related to the style of Hieronymus Bosch. However it was unlike the works of Hieronymus in the sense that it was not intended as a moral sermon against the depravity of the world but rather as a recognition of evil in it. This capacity to see evil as inseparable from the human condition was carried over into the Triumph of Death, another Pieter Bruegel painting of the same year.
While Karel van Mander, a Dutch biographer, claims that Netherlandish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born in a town of the same name near Breda, most recent authorities follow the Italian writer Guicciardini in designating Breda itself as the birthplace of Pieter. It is inferred that Pieter was born between 1525 and 1530 on the basis of the fact that Pieter entered the guild of Antwerp painters in 1551.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder entered the house of Hieronymus Cock as an engraving designer in 1556. Big Fish Eat Little Fish, a pen drawing of Pieter that year was published as an engraving by Hieronymus. Hieronymus substituted the name of Bosch for Bruegel to exploit the popularity of the works of Bosch in Antwerp at the time.
There is evidence to suggest that Pieter Bruegel the Elder was attempting to substitute a new and moral eschatology for the traditional view of the Christian cosmos of Bosch in his series of engravings, Seven Deadly Sins. This was despite of efforts to dismiss the engravings as fascinating drolleries.
The 1959 Combat of Carnival and Lent, one of the earliest signed and dated painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the influence of Hieronymus Bosch was still strongly felt. Derivatives from the earlier Dutch master included the high-horizoned landscape, the decorative surface patterning and many of the iconographic details.
The Dulle Griet of 1562 was still related to the style of Hieronymus Bosch. However it was unlike the works of Hieronymus in the sense that it was not intended as a moral sermon against the depravity of the world but rather as a recognition of evil in it. This capacity to see evil as inseparable from the human condition was carried over into the Triumph of Death, another Pieter Bruegel painting of the same year.
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