A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms Pieter Aertsen 1551

A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
Pieter Aertsen 1551
From the collection of
North Carolina Museum of Art
Details
Title: A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
Creator: Pieter Aertsen
Date: 1551
Physical Dimensions: w168.9 x h115.6 cm
Type: Painting
Rights: North Carolina Museum of Art
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 45 1/2 x 66 1/2 in. (115.6 x 168.9 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from Wendell and Linda Murphy and various donors, by exchange

North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh, United States

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Pieter Aertsen
1508 - 1575

Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Pier because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism, who invented the monumental genre scene combining still life and genre painting, and very often also including a biblical scene in the background. He was born and died in Amsterdam, in his lifetime a relatively minor city, and painted there but mainly in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands. His genre scenes were influential on later Flemish Baroque painting, and also in Italy, and 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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