Editing Pieter Bruegel the Elder (section)

===Travel===
In 1551 Bruegel became a free master in the [[Guild of Saint Luke]] of Antwerp.  He set off for Italy soon after, probably by way of France.  He visited [[Rome]] and, rather adventurously for the period, by 1552 had reached [[Reggio Calabria]] at the southern tip of the mainland, where a drawing records the city in flames after a Turkish raid.<ref>Grove; Orenstein, 204 for the drawing</ref> He probably continued to [[Sicily]], but by 1553 was back in Rome.  There he met the miniaturist [[Giulio Clovio]], whose will of 1578 lists paintings by Bruegel; in one case a joint work. These works, apparently landscapes, have not survived, but marginal miniatures in manuscripts by Clovio are attributed to Bruegel.<ref>Orenstein, 5–6; Grove</ref>
[[File:Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Big Fish Eat Little Fish, 1556 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish'', Bruegel's drawing for a print, 1556<ref name="auto6">Orenstein, 140–142</ref>]]

He left Italy by 1554, and had reached Antwerp by 1555, when the set of prints to his designs known as the ''Large Landscapes'' were published by [[Hieronymus Cock]], the most important print publisher of northern Europe.  Bruegel's return route is uncertain, but much of the debate over it was made irrelevant in the 1980s when it was realised that the celebrated series of large drawings of mountain landscapes thought to have been made on the trip were not by Bruegel at all.<ref>Orenstein, 266–267, and following catalogue pages; Grove</ref>  All the drawings from the trip that are considered authentic are of landscapes; unlike most other 16th-century artists visiting Rome he seems to have ignored both classical ruins and contemporary buildings.<ref>Snyder, 502; Orenstein, 96–97 for one agreed exception; see [http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=712020&partId=1 this British Museum page] for another drawing of Roman ruins, perhaps the Colosseum, recently attributed to Bruegel</ref>