Pieter Aertsen
Painting, Visual Artist
1508 – 1575
Who was Pieter Aertsen?
Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Pier because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism, who invented the monumental genre scene combining still life and genre painting, and very often also including a biblical scene in the background. He was born and died in Amsterdam, in his lifetime a relatively minor city, and painted there but mainly in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands. His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, and also in Italy, and his peasant scenes preceded by a few years the much better-known paintings produced in Antwerp by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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- Born
- 1508
Amsterdam - Children
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Netherlands
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- Died
- 1575
Amsterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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