Question

What is one way that you can tell that Pieter Brueghel the Elder's paintings are from the Northern Renaissance?

Brueghel's paintings have a lot of religious themes because the church paid for them


Brueghel did a lot of paintings of regular, common people (called genre paintings)


Brueghel always used one-point perspective to create a sense of deep space.


Brueghel paints people with perfect proportions because he idealized the human form.

Answer 1

Brueghel's paintings have a lot of religious themes because the church paid for them

Step-by-step explanation:

Renaissance was driven by the notion of humanism which downplayed the role of religion and dogma and gave an important role to the dignity and worth of the individuals, its influence on art emerge on the individual figure instead of symbols, greater realism and attention on details increasing the realism in human bodies and faces.

Brueghel is well known by his landscapes paintings in the 16th century he travelled to Italy and specialized in genre paintings, he also gives a great realism into his paintings although he also used to do religious paintings which in northern renaissance was common that’s why Brueghel's paintings have a lot of religious themes because the church paid for them.