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‘Pieter Breugel the Elder visited Italy in 1551-53[ce] but was more influenced by Italian and particularly Alpine landscape than by Italian art. His sources are to be found rather in the popular prints of the time, the landscapes of Patinir, the fantasies of Bosch, and observation of peasant life. Breugel spent his adult life in the company of learned humanists, yet he shows no real interest in classical mythological subjects or antiquity. His paintings of Flemish proverbs, children’s games, or “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” (1559; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) reveal an interest in popular themes and common life, rather than in the pedantic Romanizing compositions of some of his contemporaries.

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:352]

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