Noah's Family Assembling Animals before the Ark  1660

[i]After Jan Brueghel the Elder [br]After Jan Brueghel the Younger[/i] This gathering of animals would resonate on different levels for a 17th-century viewer in the Spanish (Southern) Netherlands. It is not only the biblical story of the animals gathered by Noah’s family to take on the ark in the distance but reflects both the amazing variety of nature and man’s dominion ...