Pieter Aertsen (1508 – 2 June 1575), called Lange Piet (“Tall Pete”) because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is ascribed with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still life and genre painting and often then includes a biblical scene in the background. He was responsive in his original city Amsterdam but furthermore worked for a long get older in Antwerp, then the middle of artistic cartoon in the Netherlands.
His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, Dutch yet life painting and plus in Italy. His peasant scenes preceded by a few years the much better-known paintings produced in Antwerp by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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