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          “Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion” - the topic of this volume is both nar row and broad at the same time.!

          The real name of the talented young man remains unknown, but for his registration at the guild he called himself 'Peeter Brueghels', after the village of his.

        1. Among people born in , Pieter Brueghel the Younger ranks 3.
        2. “Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Religion” - the topic of this volume is both nar row and broad at the same time.
        3. Scholars are no doubt repeatedly drawn to Bruegel's work due to the diversity of his style and medium (from Boschian drolleries to representations of landscape.
        4. They delve into literature, philosophy, the history of art, science and natural history and cover narratives of exploration, statecraft and technology.

          5. Pieter Brueghel the Younger was born in Brussels around 1564/65 into an artistic dynasty.1 Grandson of Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–50) on his mother’s side, and son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–69), Pieter the Younger may have first trained with his maternal grandmother, Mayken Verhulst (1518–1600), who was a painter in her own right.

          His father had died when he was only five and, according to Karel van Mander, Verhulst taught Pieter the Younger’s younger brother, Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625).2 Van Mander writes that Pieter the Younger studied with the Flemish landscape painter Gillis van Coninxloo (1544–1607), a training that likely occurred around 1580.3

          By 1584/85 Pieter the Younger was registered as an independent master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp.

          He married Elizabeth Goddelet in 1588, and in that same year he took on his first of nine known apprentices, whose names include Frans Snyders (1579