The Peasant Dance, Pieter Brueghel, 1568

Pieter Brueghel the Elder was an innovative Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, known for his sweeping landscapes and peasant scenes. He was apprenticed early in his life to painter Pieter Croecke van Aelst, and in 1551 around the age of 26 he was accepted into a painter’s guild in Antwerp as a master painter.