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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: The Animals Entering the Ark

🖼 The Animals Entering the Ark, 1615
Oil on copper
25.5 × 37 cm
London, United Kingdom

Teeming chaos erupts as countless creatures—lions, elephants, birds, and insects—surge toward Noah's ark in a swirling, densely populated landscape rendered with meticulous detail. Brueghel's encyclopedic inventory of animals transforms the biblical narrative into a celebration of God's creation and natural abundance, characteristic of Flemish art's fascination with nature.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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