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Pieter Aertsen
(1508/09-1575)
Aertsen, Pieter
(1508/09-1575).
Netherlandish painter, active in his native Amsterdam and in Antwerp.
A pioneer of still life and
genre painting, he is best known for scenes that at first glance look
like pure examples of these types, but which in fact have a religious
scene incorporated in them
(Butcher's Stall with the Flight into Egypt,
University of Uppsala, 1551).
Aertsen was the head of a long dynasty of painters, of whom the most
talented was his nephew and pupil Joachim Bueckelaer.
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