Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter the Elder is a Dutch Renaissance painter of the 1500s. He was known as Peasant Bruegel due to the common people subject matter in which of many of his paintings contained.

He was apparently influenced by Hieronymus Bosche. I can definitely see that in some of his paintings with color scheme and with the arrangement and scale of figures within the painting (To me there is a melodic, evenly spaced, pattern like quality in the placement). He is one of the first Northern Europe painters to paint landscapes without a historical preservation necessity and but simply painted them for their own sake.