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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Coastal Landscape

🖼 Coastal Landscape, 1610s
Oil on panel
45 × 67 cm

Sweeping coastline dotted with tiny figures reveals Brueghel's mastery of atmospheric perspective and intricate detail work. His bird's-eye composition influenced Northern European landscape painting, establishing the genre's emphasis on naturalistic observation and human activity within vast environments.

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