<p>Famous for his landscapes and peasant scenes, <a href="/entity/m0h6nl" data-gacategory="annotation" data-gaaction="clicked" data-galabel="assetpage_injected_link_v1">Pieter Bruegel the Elder</a>, was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker. He gained experience in Italy and France before going to Antwerp, where he became a master in the painter&#39;s guild. The older Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch exercised the most influence on Bruegel&#39;s art. His major inspiration was drawn however directly from nature, which is evident in artworks like &#39;Landscape with the Fall of Icarus&#39; (1558) or &#39;Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap&#39; (1565). Although the Italianate style dominated in his times, Bruegel the Elder preferred a somewhat simpler form. He was the pioneer of Netherlandish genre painting because his main focus lay on village life, as seen, for instance, in &#39;Netherlandish Proverbs&#39; (1559). He also created religious works like such as &#39;The Tower of Babel&#39; (1563).</p>