Back بيتر سنايرز ARZ Pieter Snayers Catalan Pieter Snayers Czech Pieter Snayers Danish Pieter Snayers German Πίτερ Σνάιερς Greek Peter Snayers Spanish Peeter Snayers French פטר סניירס HE Pieter Snayers Hungarian
Peter Snayers or Pieter Snayers[1] (1592–1667) was a Flemish painter known for his panoramic battle scenes, depictions of cavalry skirmishes, attacks on villages, coaches and convoys and hunting scenes.[2][3] He established his reputation mainly through his topographic battle scenes providing a bird's eye view over the battlefield.[4] He further painted large landscapes and portraits of the aristocracy.[5] He was a regular collaborator of local landscape painters and also Rubens.[6]
After starting his career in Antwerp, he moved to Brussels where he worked for the court.[2] He was the principal military iconographer of the court in Brussels and the appointed court painter with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.[7]
- ^ Name variations: Peeter Snaijers, Peter Snaijers, Peeter Snayers
- ^ a b Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870993569. (p. 241-243, v.1; plate 92, v.2)
- ^ Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture 1585–1700, New Haven: Yale University Press (1998): 173. ISBN 0-300-07038-1
- ^ "La batalla de Honnecourt" de Peeter Snayers, Boletín del Museo del Prado, no. 41, pp. 60–69.
- ^ Carl van de Velde, "Snayers, Pieter" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 9 March 2017]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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