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Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Flemish Renaissance painter

1525 - 1569

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His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 82 in 2024). Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the 32nd most popular painter (down from 26th in 2024), the 11th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 8th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Dutch Painter.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is most famous for his paintings of peasant life in the Netherlands.

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#11 / 2,139

Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks #11 among 2,139 people in Pantheon born in Netherlands, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder's biography appears in 83 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 98% of all Painters.

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Despite a life of just 44 years, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks #32 among all Painters in history.

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Among Painters

Among painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 32 out of 2,055. Before him are El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, and Hieronymus Bosch. After him are Amedeo Modigliani, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Jan van Eyck, Edgar Degas, and Masaccio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 1. After him are Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Hans Staden, Zhang Juzheng, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Germain Pilon, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Juraj Drašković, and Tadeáš Hájek. Among people deceased in 1569, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 1. After him are Louis, Prince of Condé, John of Ávila, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Maria Temryukovna, Gerolama Orsini, Aben Humeya, Mikołaj Rej, Catherine Carey, António Ferreira, and Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 11 out of 2,139. Before him are William III of England (1650), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), Johan Cruyff (1947), Pope Adrian VI (1459), and Hieronymus Bosch (1450). After him are Mata Hari (1876), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), and Daniel Bernoulli (1700).

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Among Painters In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 6. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), and Hieronymus Bosch (1450). After him are Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Jan Steen (1626), Theo van Gogh (1857), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Han van Meegeren (1889), and Dieric Bouts (1415).

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