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BRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger: Adoration of the Magi

🖼 Adoration of the Magi, c. 1600
Oil on panel
38 × 56 cm
Venice, Italy

Crowded village chaos surrounds the holy family in humble stable, rendered with meticulous detail across interconnected scenes. Bruegel transforms the sacred narrative into bustling Flemish life, collapsing divine and peasant worlds to reveal spiritual presence everywhere.

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