Pieter Aertsen

Years of life:	1508 – 1575
Art Movement:	Northern Mannerism

Genre:	Portrait , Religious , Still-life , Genre scenes
Country:	Netherlands
Century:	XVI

He painted altarpieces and large-scale peasant subjects. He often depicts religious scenes in monumental genre and still-life scenes (e.g., butcher’s shop). Good at modeling with light in the Italian manner. He loves movement. He resembles Bruegel, but without the humor and moral observation; or Rubens, but without his panache and power.

Pieter Aertsen’s major works are Market Scene, c. 1550 (Munich: Alte Pinakothek); Butcher’s Stall with the Flight into Egypt, 1551 (University of Uppsala, Sweden); Cook in front of the Stove, 1559 (Bruges: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts).

References:

Robert Cumming. Art: complete encyclopedia. – 512 p. – Moscow: Astrel, 2005.

Artworks:

Peasants

1560

Peasants • 1560
The egg-dance

1552

The egg-dance • 1552
The Adoration of the Magi

1560

The Adoration of the Magi • 1560
Market Scene (Fragment of An Ecce-homo)

1550

Market Scene (Fragment of An Ecce-homo) • 1550
A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (The Butcher’s Stall)

1551

A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (The Butcher’s Stall) • 1551
Apostles Peter and John

1575

Apostles Peter and John • 1575
Christ with Mary and Martha

1552

Christ with Mary and Martha • 1552
Christ and the Adulteress

1559

Christ and the Adulteress • 1559
Peasants by the Hearth

1560

Peasants by the Hearth • 1560
Vendor of Fowl

1560

Vendor of Fowl • 1560
Market Scene

Market Scene