Jan Bruegel [6] Velvet ( Senior, Floral ) ( Dutch Jan Bruegel , MFA : [ˈjɑn ˈbrøːɣəl] ) ( 1568 , Brussels - January 13, 1625 , Antwerp ) - a well-known South Dutch ( Flemish ) artist. The son of Peter Brueghel the Elder , brother of Peter Brueghel the Younger .
| Jan Brueghel the Elder | |
|---|---|
 Jan Brueghel family, portrait of Rubens | |
| Birth name | Jan Brueghel |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Brussels |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship | Spanish Netherlands |
| Genre | , , and |
| Patrons | Federico Borromeo |
Biography
He studied with Peter Gutkint and Gillis van Conninsloo. In 1589 , Jan Brueghel went to Italy . From 1592 to 1595 , Jan Brueghel lived in Rome , where he became friends with landscape painter Paul Bril . Upon his return to the South Netherlands in 1597 , as the master’s son, he was admitted to the Antwerp Guild of Artists of St. Luke . He married on January 23, 1599 , and his first son was born on September 13, 1601 , later also the famous artist Jan Brueghel the Younger .
In 1601-1602 Jan Brueghel the Elder served as dean of the Guild of St. Luke, visited Prague in 1604 , and later worked at the Brussels court of the governors of the Spanish Netherlands Albrecht and Isabella , as mentioned in 1606 .
Jan Brueghel the Elder died in 1625 from cholera , three of his children ( Peter, Elizabeth and Maria ) became a victim of this disease with him.
Creativity
The creative heritage of John Brueghel the Elder includes many magnificent landscapes with small, animating paintings of human figures, sometimes on biblical subjects. Jan Brueghel is famous for his detailed images of flowers in the form of still lifes or flower wreaths. Thanks to his patroness, the Archduke, the artist had access to the royal greenhouses, in which rare plants were grown. He always wrote from nature and expected for many months when this or that plant blossoms. Jan Brueghel also wrote a large number of paintings on mythological themes and allegories , for example, “The Four Elements and Five Senses ” ( 1617 - 1618 , together with Rubens ). Rubens considered Jan Brueghel his elder brother.
Genealogy
| Peter Bruegel Older | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Peter Bruegel Younger | Jan Brueghel Older | Marie Bruegel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ambrosius Brueghel | Jan Brueghel Younger | Anna Bruegel | David Teniers Younger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abraham Brueghel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Jan Breughel - 2009.
- ↑ Jan, the elder Brueghel
- ↑ Jan I Brueghel The Elder - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ RKDartists
- ↑ According to the Dutch-Russian practical transcription , Bregel should be considered the Russian form of the surname.
Literature
- Breggels or Bruegels // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- S. Zuffy. Great atlas of painting. - M .: Olma-Press, 2002 .-- S. 154. - 431 p. - ISBN 5-224-03922-3 .
- E. Mescherina. Western European genre painting. - M. , 2006 .-- S. 44.
- Helge Siefert, Zum Ruhme des Helden. Historien- und Genremalerei des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, München 1993