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BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder: The Adoration of the Kings

🖼 The Adoration of the Kings, 1564
Oil on wood
111 × 84 cm
London, United Kingdom

Crowded chaos fills a snowy village where the Magi kneel before the humble Christ child, rendered in meticulous detail across multiple planes. Bruegel transforms the sacred narrative into a densely populated Flemish scene, merging religious devotion with everyday Renaissance life.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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