The most famous Flemish painter of the 16th century. He died at the age of 44. He traveled to many places, painting, studying. He worked in the printing and engraving industry, also known for his realistic artistic ways. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, known as Farmer Bruegel, because he dressed as a farmer to socialize at weddings and parties. This way he could find information about peasant life for his paintings.Pieter Bruegel was born on September 9th. No one knows for sure what year, but it is said to be between 1525 and 30. Bruegel was born in the Netherlands. He is the only member of his family who is artistic. Living during the Brueghel dynasty he dropped the "h" and signed his paintings with Brugel. Pieter has worked in many places such as France, Italy and Antwerp. When in 1551 in Antwerp he was accepted as a master in the painters' guild. Visiting many different cities, he drew many religious paintings and organic views of different landscapes while in his early years. Later Pieter Bruegel was Pieter Coecke van Aelst as his student. Where she studied with him and his other students in a studio learning more about small and large paintings. This studio was in Brussels in 1544. Bruegel married Coecke's daughter Maycen. He also had two sons, Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, who both became painters. Their father died when the eldest son Brueghel the youngest was just 5 years old. So they never received training from their father. After the death of their mother Maycen they lived with their grandmother, also a painter. His early paintings, such as Carnival Fighting and Lent, were influenced by Hieronymus Bosch. Bosch was an early Flemish painter known for his realistic images and illustrating moral and religious concepts. Many u...... middle of paper......, also different color combinations to make his paintings different from any other artist. Without Pieter Bruegel the world could not look back to the 16th century and predict what life would have been like then without his and other paintings that truly showed life, cast their perspective. Bruegel then introduced the details of life as a farmer or child. He expressed his opinion on life with the style and detail of the landscapes he painted, and at the time it was different no other artists really drew the outside world, it was mostly selfies, of themselves or other people. Other Dutch and Flemish painters established new subjects such as landscape painting and genre painting, which Joachim Patinir developed landscape painting, inventing a type of world landscape, which was then perfected by Bruegel, followed by Pieter Aertsen, also contributed to popularize genre painting.