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1596–1625 · 工作地

Antwerp

1618

Leads the city's commission for the Archdukes

Brueghel was one of twelve leading painters commissioned by the Antwerp magistrate to produce a series of paintings for the Archdukes; he coordinated the cycle Allegory of the Five Senses with Rubens, Frans Snyders, Frans Francken the Younger, Joos de Momper, Hendrick van Balen and Sebastiaen Vrancx. The paintings were destroyed in a fire in 1713.

1619/1620

Daughter born: Anna Brueghel

6 August 1623

The Archduchess and Borromeo as godparents

Brueghel's daughter Clara Eugenia was baptised; her godparents were Archduchess Isabella and Cardinal Federico Borromeo.

13 January 1625

Dies of cholera along with three of his children

Brueghel died in Antwerp aged 57 of cholera; the same epidemic also took three of his children, Pieter, Elisabeth and Maria. Other accounts say he died of complications from a gastrointestinal upset.

1625年1月13日

Died