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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: The Original Sin

🖼 The Original Sin, 1616
Oil on wood
52 × 83.5 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Lush forest garden teeming with exotic animals surrounds Adam and Eve in intimate scale, rendered with meticulous detail and jewel-like color. Brueghel captures paradise as an earthly Eden filled with creatures—a vision merging biblical narrative with Renaissance fascination for natural abundance and exotic discovery.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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