Pieter Aertsen

Years of life: | 1508 – 1575 |
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Art Movement: | Northern Mannerism |
Genre: | Portrait , Religious , Still-life , Genre scenes |
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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.
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