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5 unusual facts about Pieter Brueghel


Fortabat Art Collection

International Art: including works by Pieter Brueghel, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Gustav Klimt, Auguste Rodin, Roberto Matta and, among others, Andy Warhol, who created one of his iconic portraits for the patroness.

John Anster Fitzgerald

Many of his fairy paintings are dark and contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the surreal nightmare-scapes of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.

José Gurvich

In Spain he studied under the Spanish masters, Goya and Velázquez; but it was the work of El Bosco and Pieter Brueghel that fueled his thirst for diversity and learned to transform his wealth of images into his own unique vision.

Pieter Brueghel

Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638), son of the above, a painter and copyist, also known as "Hell Brueghel"

Street magic

In his diary, Samuel Pepys mentions seeing magicians performing in this fashion and one can see street magicians in depictions by Hieronymous Bosch, William Hogarth, and Pieter Brueghel.



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