page_title: Peeter Baltens
hierarchical_section_title: Peeter Baltens
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: De Sint Maartenskermis. Een menigte vecht en verdringt zich rond een vat wijn. Rechts de heilige Martinus die zijn mantel deelt met bedelaars. Op de voorgrond een bedevaartganger.
context_page_description: Peeter Baltens, Pieter Balten or Pieter Custodis, was a Flemish Renaissance painter, draughtsman, engraver and publisher. Baltens was also active as an art dealer and poet. He was known for his genre paintings, religious compositions and landscapes.
  His career and artistic development and that of the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder were closely intertwined. He is credited as being one of the key inventors of the genre of the village scene in Flemish and Dutch art.
context_section_description: Peeter Baltens, Pieter Balten or Pieter Custodis (c. 1527 in Antwerp – 1584 in Antwerp), was a Flemish Renaissance painter, draughtsman, engraver and publisher.  Baltens was also active as an art dealer and poet.  He was known for his genre paintings, religious compositions and landscapes.
  His career and artistic development and that of the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder were closely intertwined. He is credited as being one of the key inventors of the genre of the village scene in Flemish and Dutch art.
caption: St Martin's Day Kermis
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