byname Velvet Bruegel, Dutch Jan Bruegel De Oudere, or Fluwelen Bruegel, Bruegel
also spelled Brueghel, or Breughel Flemish painter known for his still lifes of
flowers and for his landscapes.
The second son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, born just before his father's death,
he was reared by a grandmother and learned his art in Antwerp. In his youth, he
went to Italy, where he painted under the patronage of Cardinal Federigo
Borromeo, and later, in 1610, he was appointed court painter to the archdukes of
Habsburg Austria. He worked primarily in Antwerp and was a friend of Peter Paul
Rubens, with whom he sometimes collaborated in painting flowers, landscape, and
animals in canvases in which Rubens supplied the human figures; an example is
the “Adam and Eve in Paradise” (1620).
His son Jan Bruegel II (1601–78) was also a painter, whose subjects and
techniques were similar to (and often indistinguishable from) Jan Bruegel's.
Garden of Eden
1612
Oil on copper, 50,3 x 80,1 cm
Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
The Original Sin
1616
Oil on wood, 52 x 83,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The Original Sin (detail)
1616
Oil on wood, 52 x 83,5 cm (full painting)
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The Sense of Hearing
1618
Oil on panel, 65 x 107 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Sense of Sight
1617
Oil on panel, 65 x 109 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Sense of Sight (detail)
1618
Oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The Sense of Taste
1618
Oil on panel, 64 x 108 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Landscape of Paradise and the
Loading of the Animals in Noah's Ark
1596
Diana And Actaeon
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