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After his training and travels to Italy, he returned in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the 1550s, he made painting his main medium, and all his famous paintings come from the following period of little more than a decade before his early death in 1569, when he was probably in his early forties. In the 20th and 21st centuries, Bruegel's works have inspired artists in both the literary arts and in cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe trained under Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Among his most cited paintings: \u003cem\u003eTwo Chained Monkeys\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Peasant Dance\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDull Gret\u003c\/em\u003e. His principal genres were animal art, still life, and marine art. 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