Pieter Aertsen

(1508–1575) painter from the Northern Netherlands (1508-1575)

Pieter Aertsen (1508–1575) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Pieter Aertsen belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.

Pieter Aertsen was born in Amsterdam and died in Amsterdam. Pieter Aertsen studied under Aertgen van Leyden. Pieter Aertsen worked in Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Amsterdam.

The best-known works include ‘The Egg Dance’, ‘Butcher's Stall with the Flight into Egypt’, ‘Christ with Mary and Martha’, and ‘Still Life with Meat and the Holy Family’. The works belong mainly to the genres Renaissance and history painting. The catalogue has 63 works by Pieter Aertsen with free images. The dated works span the years 1530–1600. Works by Pieter Aertsen are held by several collections, among them Rijksmuseum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Luis de Vargas, Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, Jacopo Strada, Cristoforo Gherardi, and Lelio Orsi.

• Mannerism
• Slaktarboden (North Carolina Museum of Art)
• The Egg Dance