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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Going to the Market

🖼 Going to the Market, 1603
Copperplate
18.5 × 25.5 cm
Vienna, Austria

Crowded figures wind through a snowy village landscape, rendered with meticulous detail and warm earth tones. Brueghel captures peasant life's mundane rhythms, establishing the Northern Renaissance tradition of elevating everyday scenes to high art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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