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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

🖼 Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, c. 1595
Pen, brush, brown, blue ink
202 × 313 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Sweeping landscape dominates this panel, with tiny figures of Tobias and the angel traversing winding paths through forests and distant mountains rendered in meticulous detail. The biblical narrative dissolves into nature itself, exemplifying Flemish painting's revolutionary shift toward landscape as primary subject rather than mere backdrop.

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