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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man

🖼 The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, 1616
Oil on copper
24 × 37 cm

Lush vegetation and teeming wildlife fill a verdant paradise, with Adam and Eve positioned among intricate botanical detail rendered in jewel-like colors. Brueghel's encyclopedic landscape demonstrates Northern Renaissance mastery while embedding moral narrative within nature's abundance, influencing later landscape traditions.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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