1525 - 1569
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( BROY-gəl, also US: BROO-gəl; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl] ; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings. He was a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting and later painting in general in his innovative choices of subject matter, as one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting. He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter Bruegel the Elder has received more than 2,857,362 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Bruegel the Elder is the 23rd most popular painter (down from 21st in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Netherlands and the 4th most popular Dutch Painter.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder is most famous for his paintings of peasant life in the Netherlands.
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Among painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 23 out of 1,421. Before him are Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Titian, Donatello, and Gustav Klimt. After him are Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, El Greco, and Hieronymus Bosch.
1839 - 1906
HPI: 82.12
Rank: 17
1869 - 1954
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 18
1848 - 1903
HPI: 81.79
Rank: 19
1488 - 1576
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 20
1386 - 1466
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 21
1862 - 1918
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 22
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 23
1798 - 1863
HPI: 80.88
Rank: 24
1832 - 1883
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 25
1866 - 1944
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 26
1872 - 1944
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 27
1541 - 1614
HPI: 80.36
Rank: 28
1450 - 1516
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1525, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 1. After him are Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, Carolus Clusius, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Hans Staden, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Patriarch Job of Moscow, and Caspar Peucer. Among people deceased in 1569, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 1. After him are Louis, Prince of Condé, John of Ávila, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Maria Temryukovna, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Gerolama Orsini, Aben Humeya, Mikołaj Rej, António Ferreira, Catherine Carey, and Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 1
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 2
1525 - 1561
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 3
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 4
1525 - 1598
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 5
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 6
1525 - 1578
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 7
1525 - 1582
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1525 - 1590
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 9
1525 - 1576
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 10
1525 - 1607
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 11
1525 - 1602
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 12
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 1
1530 - 1569
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 2
1500 - 1569
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3
1510 - 1569
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 4
1544 - 1569
HPI: 59.79
Rank: 5
1526 - 1569
HPI: 57.64
Rank: 6
1503 - 1569
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 7
1520 - 1569
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 8
1505 - 1569
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 9
1528 - 1569
HPI: 51.35
Rank: 10
1523 - 1569
HPI: 50.71
Rank: 11
1536 - 1569
HPI: 49.50
Rank: 12
Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 6 out of 1,427. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Erasmus (1466), and Baruch Spinoza (1632). After him are Piet Mondrian (1872), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Johan Cruyff (1947), Christiaan Huygens (1629), and Hugo Grotius (1583).
1853 - 1890
HPI: 90.02
Rank: 1
1606 - 1669
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 2
1632 - 1675
HPI: 85.26
Rank: 3
1466 - 1536
HPI: 83.50
Rank: 4
1632 - 1677
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 5
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 6
1872 - 1944
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 7
1450 - 1516
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 8
1632 - 1723
HPI: 79.56
Rank: 9
1947 - 2016
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 10
1629 - 1695
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 11
1583 - 1645
HPI: 77.44
Rank: 12
Among painters born in Netherlands, Pieter Bruegel the Elder ranks 4. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), and Johannes Vermeer (1632). After him are Piet Mondrian (1872), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Jan Steen (1626), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Han van Meegeren (1889), Pieter de Hooch (1629), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), and Theo van Gogh (1857).
1853 - 1890
HPI: 90.02
Rank: 1
1606 - 1669
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 2
1632 - 1675
HPI: 85.26
Rank: 3
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 4
1872 - 1944
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 5
1450 - 1516
HPI: 80.10
Rank: 6
1626 - 1679
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 7
1628 - 1682
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 8
1889 - 1947
HPI: 67.07
Rank: 9
1629 - 1684
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 10
1612 - 1642
HPI: 66.23
Rank: 11
1857 - 1891
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 12