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Date : 1613
Material : Oil painting on wood
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European Painting
Painting
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Flandres
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Around 1600, northern European artists became increasingly interested in the precise rendering of the animal world. As court painter to the Hapsburg governors of the Southern Netherlands, Brueghel was able to study exotic animals in the royal menagerie in Brussels. He used this knowledge to celebrate the beauty and variety of creation in this rendition of the biblical subject of Noah's ark, in which Noah rounds up male and female animals to save them from a great flood.
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