How did Pieter Bruegel the Elder showed Renaissance influences in his work?

Pieter Bruegel clearly rejected the influences of Italian Renaissance art and its classical foundations, which dominated the work of many of his Flemish contemporaries. Rather than mythological subjects, muscular nudes, and idealized scenes, Bruegel's art portrays figures observed from nature, acting out realistic situations in believable contemporary settings.

It was in nature that Pieter Bruegel found his greatest inspiration as he is identified as being a master of landscapes. He specialized in genre paintings populated by peasants, often with a large landscape element, but also painted religious work.