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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Paradise Landscape with the Animals Entering Noah’s Ark

🖼 Paradise Landscape with the Animals Entering Noah’s Ark, 1596
Oil on copper
27 × 36 cm

Teeming wildlife converges toward a distant ark in lush, verdant landscape rendered with meticulous detail and jewel-toned colors. Brueghel captures the biblical deluge's chaotic abundance, blending naturalistic observation with spiritual narrative to celebrate God's creation before its erasure.

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E. H. Gombrich
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