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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Landscape with Windmills

🖼 Landscape with Windmills, c. 1607
Oil on panel
34 × 50 cm
Madrid, Spain

Expansive fields dotted with windmills stretch beneath clouded skies, rendered in meticulous detail with warm earth tones and delicate brushwork. Brueghel captures rural Flemish life at a pivotal moment when windmills transformed landscape and labor, establishing him as a master of atmospheric panoramic scenes.

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